Have you seen that photo of Pope Francis wearing a gigantic white puffer coat? It’s been going viral on social media platforms like Reddit and Twitter over the past couple of days. But it’s completely fake.
The fake Pope image fooled plenty of people, including far-right influencer Ian Miles Cheong, who tweeted, “The Pope is a fashion icon. Respect the drip.”
“What would be the name of the Pope Francis lifestyle brand?” tweeted Don Moynihan, a professor at Georgetown.These AI image generators, which also include OpenAI’s DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, allow anyone to simply describe the image they want to see using text. The images are able to be created because the tools have been trained on literally millions of images from the web, including many images that are protected by copyright.
The world of AI-generated images is relatively new, with companies rolling out their tools to the public only within the past four months. But fake photos have been around since the, and only time will tell whether these new AI programs will create more disinformation and misinformation than Adobe Photoshop allowed.
Whereas Photoshop takes some real skill to pull off a convincing fake, anyone can now type in any text prompt at Midjourney and instantly see their creation come to life. And with the 2024 presidential election just over the horizon—which will unfortunately include an anti-democratic former president who
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