One of the most significant trends that is taking the internet by storm as of late is that of AI generated images. Countless images that were created by AI such as DALL-E are flooding social media platforms, and it turns out that people are actually quite easily fooled by them. Images depicting former US Donald Trump being dragged away by police officials and Pope Francis wearing an out of character jacket were widely believed to be true.
Such a trend is dangerous because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up contributing to the spread of misinformation. Concured recently conducted a poll that revealed the extent to which AI has progressed, asking users to pick one of two images that they thought was generated by some form of AI.
With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that 35% of respondents picked the wrong image. This seems to suggest that finding the differences between AI generated images and the real thing is becoming harder than might have been the case otherwise.
Even images of the moon were difficult to parse, with just 64% of users selecting the correct image once they were shown a pair of pictures. In spite of the fact that this is the case, there are some easy ways to recognize AI generated images for what they are.
For example, if the picture depicts a human being, the best thing to do would be to take a look at their hands or teeth. AI is notoriously bad at generating realistic hands or feet, with most images that it creates having an uncanny valley effect.
All in all, AI is here to stay, and that makes it essential that steps be taken to prevent it from being misused with all things having been considered and taken into account. The more AI advances, the harder it will be for people to trust anything that they see, especially when they are scrolling through their social media feeds on various online platforms.
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Such a trend is dangerous because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up contributing to the spread of misinformation. Concured recently conducted a poll that revealed the extent to which AI has progressed, asking users to pick one of two images that they thought was generated by some form of AI.
With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that 35% of respondents picked the wrong image. This seems to suggest that finding the differences between AI generated images and the real thing is becoming harder than might have been the case otherwise.
Even images of the moon were difficult to parse, with just 64% of users selecting the correct image once they were shown a pair of pictures. In spite of the fact that this is the case, there are some easy ways to recognize AI generated images for what they are.
For example, if the picture depicts a human being, the best thing to do would be to take a look at their hands or teeth. AI is notoriously bad at generating realistic hands or feet, with most images that it creates having an uncanny valley effect.
All in all, AI is here to stay, and that makes it essential that steps be taken to prevent it from being misused with all things having been considered and taken into account. The more AI advances, the harder it will be for people to trust anything that they see, especially when they are scrolling through their social media feeds on various online platforms.
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