My most effective strategy is to ask: is there any reason for a human to take this picture?
One AI-generated image was a bedside night stand, with no clutter other than a set of keys on top of a receipt. It looked perfectly real, no glitches or weirdness... other than the idea of someone taking a picture of it.
Not a perfect strategy, though; I thought this one was AI for just that reason: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potted_plant_1_2018-...
But then, some people specialize in taking photos that others would not because they have in mind stock photos, art or something else. They see the world differently.
There are tons of real stock photos with that type of mundane content.
Stock photos and AI images might as well be in the same category tbh.
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