AI image generation is advancing at astronomical speeds. Can we still tell if a picture is fake?

  • Written by: Brendan Paul Murphy, Lecturer in Digital Media, CQUniversity Australia
AI image generation is advancing at astronomical speeds. Can we still tell if a picture is fake?Brendan Murphy, Author provided

Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden.

Black and white image of a girl surrounded by paper cutouts of fairiesThe first of the five ‘Cottingley Fairies’ photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917.Wikipedia

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