More phones may soon let us prove photos are real – but will it solve the AI fake image crisis?
Filip Baotić/Unsplash “Pics or it didn’t happen” was a thing people used to say online when they wanted to verify a claim. Technology has changed this. We now regularly see a mix of the surreal and the fantastic. World leaders saying things they didn’t. Public figures seemingly endorsing fake products. And disasters that unfold before our eyes but didn’t really happen. Now, anyone can create photorealistic images or videos using AI for a range of purposes. This has changed the nature of visual…
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