How to navigate the era of unreal images

How to navigate the era of unreal images
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Allyn Robins
For many, it all began with the pope’s puffer jacket. Maybe for you, it was a digitally enhanced Tom Cruise impersonator, or the recent study that showed that some artificial intelligence-generated faces could look more "realistic" than real ones, or the sophisticated deepfake doppelganger of Zuru boss Nick Mowbray that nearly fooled the company’s chief financial officer. Whatever the catalyst, more and more people are coming to the same conclusion: seeing is no longer believing. Generative AI has rapidly be...

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