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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Donna Lu

Misinformation, mistakes and the Pope in a puffer: what rapidly evolving AI can – and can’t – do

Photorealistic AI-generated images of (L-R) the Pope in a puffer, Donald Trump getting arrested and Joe Biden with a mullet.
Fake images generated by AI are becoming increasingly realistic, including (L-R) the Pope in a puffer, Donald Trump getting arrested and Joe Biden with a mullet. Composite: AI images via Twitter users Pop Base/Eliot Higgins/Cam Harless

Generative AI – including large language models such as GPT-4, and image generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion – is advancing in a “storm of hype and fright”, as some commentators have observed.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have yielded warnings that the rapidly developing technology may result in “ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control”.

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