Unless you take curation of your social feeds very seriously, the tidal wave of AI slop images and videos has felt nigh inescapable. More worrying still is how often this crashing tide serves to highlight which of our loved ones struggle to discern AI-generated content from all the slop made by human hands. Even worse still, one can often find oneself fooled by an image spat out by a generative model.
Sound familiar? Turns out it's not just you. According to a new study out of Microsoft's AI for Good research lab, folks can accurately discern between real and AI-generated images only 62% of the time. I suppose that's better than simply flipping a coin, but that's still pretty bleak.
