A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes those words can be thoroughly misleading. Uncannily realistic images can be generated by artificial intelligence (AI) through applications like Midjourney and without clear labelling, people can easily believe the evidence of their own eyes, even if it’s complete fiction.
Google, which has its own big plans for generative AI over the coming months, has announced two features to help people establish which pictures are real and which are algorithmically generated.
