6 Dec 2023

Deep Fake era of an AI: who can spot the difference?

by Karolina | posted in: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Photography, Technology | 0

Which image is real?

Take a really good look at these two images.

Fake image of a snowy hills, created by artificial intelligence, AI

Frozen tree bending over completely covered in snow, with a pink sunset sky behind it, winter at a high mountains

Here are some tips that work for me… Real photographs often aren’t perfect, neat and flawless, almost as if they were made of plastic. There may be noise. There may be a mess. Artificial images contain fairly obvious mathematical repetition (such as the shadows in the image on the left), the weird patterns that make no sense (such as the snow texture at the bottom of the image) or an unnatural shape (oval sun? Oh please….). These will give you a hint that a view may be computer generated. Colours may also be too strong, although the image on the right is fairly colourful. It’s just too, too perfect, and real life – well – isn’t.

I see far too many people believe in the influx of artificial computer generated images online as “real”. So I feel it is important to talk about this more. Unless you don’t mind being fooled and have a warped perception of reality (oblivion is a bliss), we need to learn how to distinguish between the two. We have to start teaching this more. That is our challenge for the years ahead!

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When do we start to draw a line to protect our genuine, imperfect, vulnerable and unique humanity? Do you feel like things are getting out of hand?

Want to test yourself?
Here is one more LINK for you.

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