Original vs AI edit wipe

Image models do not paint over one region and leave the rest alone; they regenerate the frame and re-render the whole scene around your instruction. That is why a request to remove a cable can also move a chair, rewrite the label on a box, or turn a reflection into something the room does not contain.

The wipe makes that drift visible. Two versions in the same coordinates, revealing one over the other, turn every difference into a flicker at the divider. Nothing needs to be remembered or listed: the change announces itself as you drag.

Start behind the subject: background objects, their positions, and the shadows they cast. Then the surfaces — glass, screens, polished metal — which should reflect what the edited scene actually holds. A reflection of a plant you deleted is the classic tell.

Then the subject itself. Text on packaging, embossed logos, stitch lines and product geometry should be identical to the source. Any drift in hue, gloss or proportion means the model re-rendered the product rather than the background. The checks on the right record each of those as a pass or a flag.

Compare exports, not screenshots. Two files at the same crop and aspect ratio make the divider honest; a slightly different framing turns ordinary edge movement into a false finding. If the edit was returned at another size, crop the larger frame first and compare again.

For video, export stills from the same moment in each clip and wipe those. The divider is a stills tool, and a moving comparison tells you more about timing than about what changed in the frame.