Is It AI or Is It Human?December 19, 2025
So I'm going a little off-topic this week. I've been watching this Instagram account, and even though it has some pretty good information, it's driving me crazy 'cause it's so obviously AI. And that's spite the fact that everything she says I agree with, yet when I'm watching the video, it's all I can do to keep from twitching and
screaming: "BUT YOU'RE FAKE!" Part of this is because I look for authenticity in everything; if the voice sounds fake, my alarm goes off. If the actions look fake, I'm on alert. If there's something amiss, then it's like fingernails scraping across a blackboard! This is primarily due to the fakery that began with the Grunge Era, when Polly Mellon, at the time, was discussing Grunge with Issac Mizrahi and said, "Ugly is Beautiful!" I wanted to scream at the
computer screen and say, "NO UGLY IS UGLY. BEAUTIFUL IS BEAUTIFUL!" And therein proceeded 3 decades of awful, ugly, ill-fitting, torn, ripped clothing that did nothing to make people feel comfy. And there was a class of people who didn't buy into this and managed to survive. Mostly leaders in corporations, companies, movements, government, and other institutional settings. They all wore lovely clothing, with nothing ripped or hanging off their
shoulders, and no sign of every ripple of their bodies. So that's where my abhorrence of fake comes. So, as a public service, how do you tell AI from real? And if you know how to spot it, it's pretty easy, because AI is predictable, whereas real human character isn't. This comes from the @grandmagigiofficial
Instagram account, but she's on YouTube. Here's a sample of this account.
Sounds good, it sure does to me, but there's something off. It's a little more apparent in this video.
What's the giveaway here? Her legs. They never move an inch. But there's more in both of these videos. The expressions on her face are within a specific, prescribed manner, and that's it. She never winks, or looks in a different
direction, or bobs her head in another direction. Her head-bobbing is one of the clear giveaways. She really does look like what she is here - a mono-head-bobbing idiot!
But what she says is so true. I really love this series:
All of this is so right on target.
- Owning less will make you look wealthier.
- Having a closet full of clothes that fit, flatter and work together makes you stop dressing in chaos.
- You dress more in power.
I've practiced this most of my life, and even though I hardly bought anything starting about 40 years ago, I don't look strange or weird; I look totally appropriate and the way I want to project myself.
I looked so good that my Walt believes I
haven't gained weight in the last 10 years. And I may not have gained much, but on my tiny frame and short stature, it shows up a lot. I know it, and I know he did. But my clothes were styled and flattered my new, fuller figure, so he didn't even think there was a problem.
Now that I'm a little slimmer (not all the way back to what I was), adopting this sleeker, trimmed-down look with fitted, flattering clothes suits me perfectly.
Except it
feels like this broad is stealing. She professes that this is the way to be, buy, act, think, and look when her bobbing head says something completely different: “I’M FAKE!”
This brings up the subject of how to tell AI from real. The bottom line is that AI repeats itself in a very annoying way to us humans.
For example, AI is tasked with "Writing 10 ways to lose weight!" The opening paragraph may begin with a quote from a well-known medical source
that says, "Losing weight can be the best way to prolong your life." That sounds good. But then continues with another quote from another medical source saying, "Weight loss is a major contributor to longevity." Uh, OK - but didn't the AI say that in the quote above? Yep, it did. Continuing with a similar quote that says the same thing is a dead giveaway that the subsequent answers are from AI. This is a little like Grandma Gigi's head bobbing up and down in
precisely the same way, and her hand movements are up and down throughout the video.
I'm the first person to admit that I have tics. I start out most of my videos and writing with "so" way too often. I also talk a lot with my hands (there must be some Italian blood in me, cause I look so Italian when I'm talking! Of course, I think the Italians are magical, cause they invented opera, so hand movements are no big deal to me!!!)
At the same time, I
don't use the same hand movements in one video and a completely different set in another. And I do NOT start each sentence with "So"! That's the difference between my tics and AI!
AI goes even deeper when you ask for sketches like a Leopard jacket with orange trim - this is what I get.
This really isn't too bad - Grok (left) is OK, but after all that work, I would never wear it. The sleeve stripes (right) from Google Gemini, I'm not sure what those are supposed to be?... sergeant or something? The one in the middle from Microsoft
CoPilot is cool, has a couple of different pocket ideas, and solves the zip-up-the-side issue with a notched collar perfectly.
Then, for a leopard fur-trimmed Chanel Jacket, I get these:
Again, not bad. The Google Gemini (left) is a little puffy, but it has leopard fur trim, all right!!! The Microsoft CoPilot on the (right) is pretty conservative, and can barely tell if it's fur or not. The Grok (middle) is my fav,
although the right version is a little confusing; the middle one looks pretty cool. Would LOVE to have that fur collar around my neck!
But the best is when I put in something like "Sooner Pride," that's the name of the Oklahoma Sooner Band, and I get this...
Yeah - you can definitely tell this is AI. Nothing makes sense in this. And it's almost funny!
The clothes are probably the best for AI, but still they aren't quite there. What it can give you is ideas on some things - like the ideas on
that leopard jacket with orange trim in the middle.. It's got great design solutions for notched collar and yet can zip all the way up to the neck. Then the pockets - three that are fun and look balanced without being symmetrical. I'd actually like to make that up - only in black leather. It's the design I love.
But in the top two videos, that crazy woman is bobbing her head up and down and it's not even in rhythm to anything - it's distracting from her message,
either that or she needs to be on medication.
OK so now that's out of my system. Here are some of "Grandma Gigi's" best
moments, and something that we can all live by just as long as you don't watch the head-bobbing!
Hills to die on
1. Loud women age faster - lower your voice, raise your standards.
2. Cheap shoes ruin an outfit faster than wrinkles ever could. (Well, maybe not this one)
3. If they didn't value you at 30,
they won't magically recognize your worth at 70. Let it Go, Darling
4. Repeating outfits is classy. Needing new ones every week is chaotic
5. Elegance isn't expensive. Discipline is. Man - I'm all over every one of those, maybe a little less on #2 (I can find some pretty neat shoe deals on Amazon that are pretty classy looking), but the rest of these are right on the target. Here's another...
How Wealthy Women Shop
This is the secret of classic dressing that's hard to see, because the initial outlay of money is pretty high. That $90 suit my mother bought me would have cost $700 or $800 when I retired
it. That gorgeous black suit would have cost thousands when I retired it, if I could have found the garment in that fabric. That garment in that fabric wouldn't have been at Saks, Dillard’s, even at Neiman's or Bergdorf's. Today that kind of clothing isn't available for the hoi polloi. It's only available for the super rich...
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