Fake AI generated images are all over Facebook...

[ChrisFL]

and it's getting really annoying.

I like to scroll through FB to see things relevant to me...but so often I'm now getting random posts of dogs, cats, interior designs, etc. that are all AI generated fake photos but say "photo of the day!" or something about "It's my birthday and no one celebrates"....crap....then tons of comments underneath about how adorable it is. Part of this is engagement farming that the creator will try to get to go to a shady website or something.

It's a dangerous precedent because of how easy it is to make super realistic (but not quite perfect) "photos". I guess it's cheaper than buying images for this kind of thing, but it's very important for people to be aware of what fake images look like these days as we are now at a point where a lot of things can be faked.

Just a reminder to always be aware of what you're seeing and...like April Fool's Day, don't take what you see at face value.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

This may be a fake...

 

[ChrisFL]

you can clearly tell by the objects on the shelves that the cats aren't knocking off

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I'm not sure how many people saw this about a very real deep fake fraud case that occurred in Hong Kong, but it's pretty scary how convincing these things can be. My employer had someone in one of our IT groups do our own internal example with one of our top officers and it was terrifying to see how convincing it all was.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

 

[tvguy]

Photo shop has been available since 1988. So photos that are doctors are nothing new.

 

[ChrisFL]

Photo shop has been available since 1988. So photos that are doctors are nothing new.

True, but it's waaaaay easier with no skill required now. I can make a completely believable "photo" in 30 seconds by typing a few words into an image generator

 

[tvguy]

True, but it's waaaaay easier with no skill required now. I can make a completely believable "photo" in 30 seconds by typing a few words into an image generator

You are correct. I attended a Journalism Ethics seminar 7 or 8 years ago with some pretty amazing pieces of doctored videotape being show. The warning was, do not trust video unless it is from a trusted source. Of course, even my OLD Pixel 3A phone has capability of erasing things from photos.

 

[Babs Johnson]

This may be a fake...

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