is this a real frog or AI to trick you?

[Gato Moteado]

you tell me.....and i'll tell you if you're correct

[yonder]

1. Real and probably toxic.

[Glorfindel]

2. Looks real to me!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Fake

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. It's definitely not a real frog. It's way too hot for frogs where I live

and not nearly humid enough. We do have toads though.

And if it were AI, how would I know it was necessarily 'to trick me', how is that defined? That'd require knowing the creator's intent which sounds difficult from a distance.

Also it could be not an actual photo of a frog, but not necessarily 'A.I.'. Could be a 'frog' wireframe someone built, then applied textures and lighting shadows to, kinda like how it's done in a video game or Pixar movies.

Also if it started as a regular digital photo but has had various filters applied via photoshop or the like, would it still be a 'real frog' image?

[Gato Moteado]

7. damn.....and i thought i was an over-thinker!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Could've also began life as a photo of a real frog

And had filters applied, wherein the filters leverage A.I.-based processing techniques in which case it's like Schrödinger's Frog

[hlthe2b]

5. Before you started posting your series of high resolution images, I might have thought AI

but, this one seems on a par with some of your other work. Real?

[Gato Moteado]

9. well, thank you......

....but the fact is that most of the in-situ frog shots i post aren't even high res....i'm using a 20MP lumix G9. but, if they look high res, that's a testament to the micro 4/3 technology.

this one is either real, fake or real fake, tho.

[CrispyQ]

6. I've seen some of your other photos, so I'd say real.

A few months ago there was an AI rendered baby peacock going around FB with colored feathers like adults have.

[MOMFUDSKI]

8. A I

Looks phony

[Qutzupalotl]

10. It has the correct number of toes

so I'd say real.

[AndyS]

12. It's real. There are flaws in the leaf that an AI generated image

wouldn't have. I can also see the reflection of your camera and flash diffuser in his eye, another thing I doubt AI would emulate.

The fact that your critters seem surreal not withstanding there are more things in heaven and Earth, Gato, than are dreamt of in your philosophy . . .

[Gato Moteado]

13. well......the reality of it is.....

....that you and everyone else who said it is real are correct.

Agalychnis annae is the surreal looking species in the photo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-sided_leaf_frog

[Gato Moteado]

14. the frog is.....

...real....no AI, no filters, no photoshop trickery.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-sided_leaf_frog

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Well, I was going to say it looks like AI, but I'd be wrong! The skin looks artificial to me.

Whatever it is, it looks great!

[Kablooie]

16. I see nothing to indicate AI.

There are many exotic looking frogs in reality. Many are in the Amazon.
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Edit:
Ah. After posting this I read the answer. I was right.
Nice photo!

[FreepFryer]

17. Real, cute frog! Keep the frogtography comin' ! Nt)