Images of the pope wearing a white puffer jacket have gone viral online. If many believed that the pontiff had gone into fashion, this visual was actually generated by artificial intelligence Midjourney.
” I thought the pope’s down jacket was real and I didn’t think about it. I will never survive the future of technology “tweeted, jokingly, the american celebrity Chrissy Teigen. His words reflect the feelings of many Internet users.
Midjourney update sends the web into a panic
However, if we look closer, certain details such as the rounded corners of the crucifix around his neck prove that the “photograph” is false. Before going around the Web, the image was posted in the subbredit devoted to the art-generating AI Midjourney, thus suggesting that it had indeed been created by an artificial intelligence.
Midjourney received an update in mid-March, and its creations have been widely shared on social media ever since. This new version generates much more photorealistic images than its predecessors while its training data contains many photos of celebrities. As a result, very realistic images of well-known people have been circulating the internet in recent weeks.
Among them is a visual of Elon Musk holding hands with Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Emmanuel Macron running through clouds of tear gas and Donald Trump being arrested by the police.
AIs will produce ever more realistic content
For now, some defects, like details that appear blurry, are discernible in the images. However, the way we often consume content, i.e. scrolling through a stream of information or images, can make it difficult for us to tell them apart. This is exactly what happened with the “photograph” of the pope and his down jacket. It should also be noted that some Internet users are inspired by current events to generate images, making them even more plausible.
Generative artificial intelligence is an incredibly rapidly improving technology. It is therefore certain that the images generated by these systems will become increasingly realistic, making the distinction between fiction and reality increasingly complex. The golden age of deepfakes seems to be fast approaching…
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It is certainly the AI that currently creates the most beautiful images, or at least the most artistic. Midjourney offers for a prompt (or prompt) several slightly different images that can be reworked at the user’s request. Artificial intelligence produces both 2D and 3D formats.
It is certainly the AI that currently creates the most beautiful images, or at least the most artistic. Midjourney offers for a prompt (or prompt) several slightly different images that can be reworked at the user’s request. Artificial intelligence produces both 2D and 3D formats.
Source : The Verge
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