AI and fakes

[Phoenixx9]

You've seen Willow? Rings of Power? She-Hulk? If you're among the tens of people who've seen any of those, you'll know the answer.

Yes, this One has Seen the Green!

[Zelena]

people have been altering and editing photographs for as long as photography has existed... so, it's a good idea to not always take photographs at face value.

some legendary fake photographs took over 50 years to get thoroughly debunked. like the famous Wesley David Archer/Gladys Maud Cockburne-Lange photographs purportedly showing aerial combat in WWI. these were included as part of a fictional memoir. the fake photos were given an air of authenticity because they were forged by a former WW1 pilot and special effects expert in the 1930s to help him and his wife get some money during the Great Depression. the book was a fraud... and the photos inside were all faked using model airplanes. but a LOT of people quite literally "bought it".

these infamous forgeries weren't definitively debunked until the mid-1980s after Peter Grosz and Karl S. Schneide got ahold of Archer's donations a museum.

https://slate.com/human-interest/201...ng-models.html
https://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/a...p/t-46428.html

in that particular case, unless you were an expert in WW1 aviation, lighting, and camera techniques... you would be unlikely to know that those were forgeries.

but that's just one side of the coin: the other really common blunder I've seen lately is journalists and editors picking the wrong damned photos!

Using the wrong picture is just one of the ways to distort the truth…

You can also putting the wrong caption under the picture.

Or placing a text or another picture next to the picture to change the meaning: in a book I looked through in a library, I saw a picture of Saddam Hussein next to a picture of the World Trade Center disaster.

The journalists create a message using pictures as illustrations.

What is worrying is that nowadays it’s so easy to forge pictures…