As generative AI becomes more sophisticated, it’s harder to distinguish the real from the deepfake

The text-to-image model DALL-E uses generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate images. (Shutterstock)

In the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” no longer stands. Not only is GenAI able to generate manipulated representations of people, but it can also be used to generate entirely fictitious people and scenarios.