Viral ‘Eye for an Eye’ Story on TikTok is AI-Generated and Completely Made Up

Viral ‘Eye for an Eye’ Story on TikTok is AI-Generated and Completely Made Up

Both the images are AI-generated to go along with an AI-generated story. A viral news story on TikTok about “Douglass Barnes” who carried out an “eye for an eye” murder on a cop’s daughter is made up, police say. The horrifying story of the fictional Barnes murdering the cop’s daughter after the cop had murdered … Read more

Instagram’s ‘Made With AI’ Tag is Inaccurate, Misleading, and Needs to Go

Instagram’s ‘Made With AI’ Tag is Inaccurate, Misleading, and Needs to Go

Eric Paré’s stunning photograph was given a “Made with AI” tag by Instagram yesterday. Photographers uploading their work to Instagram are finding “Made With AI” tags attached to images that were not computer-generated. The AI label undermines the photographer, suggesting they have somehow contrived the image by using a controversial generative AI program like Midjourney. … Read more

Instagram Photos Are Being Labeled ‘Made With AI’ When They’re Not

Instagram Photos Are Being Labeled ‘Made With AI’ When They’re Not

The photo on the left had a speck of dust removed with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool. This prompted Meta’s ‘Made With AI’ tag. Instagram’s newly-launched “Made with AI” labels are creating confusion as photographers and content creators are finding their posts slapped with the tags despite using minimal editing or apparently not using AI … Read more

Picture of the Year Competition Hacked Amid Avalanche of Bizarre AI Images on Facebook

Picture of the Year Competition Hacked Amid Avalanche of Bizarre AI Images on Facebook

Some of the strange AI images that has been appearing on the Pictures of the Year Facebook page. The Facebook page for Pictures of the Year International has been hacked with bizarre AI images being posted instead of photography — as AI-generated content sweeps across Facebook. Since March 13, strange AI images have been shared … Read more

YouTube Tells Creators: ‘Label AI-Generated Content’

YouTube Tells Creators: ‘Label AI-Generated Content’

YouTube announced today that it will require content creators to label AI-generated content that people could mistake for being real. A new tool will appear in Creator Studio requiring video makers to disclose when realistic-looking content appears in their video that was generated with artificial intelligence (AI). The video platform, which is owned by Google, … Read more

Midjourney Bans AI Images of Trump and Biden Ahead of Election

Midjourney Bans AI Images of Trump and Biden Ahead of Election

Midjourney CEO David Holz says it’s time to put his foot down on AI-generated images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden ahead of the presidential election in November. Yesterday (Wednesday) during a digital office hours event, Holz told several hundred users of the app that it would start blocking requests for images of the two … Read more

40% of People Can’t Tell if a Face is AI Generated: Can You?

40% of People Can’t Tell if a Face is AI Generated: Can You?

Only one of these faces belong to a real person. Scroll down to find out which one. A study by the University of Waterloo found that 40 percent of people surveyed couldn’t distinguish between an AI-generated face and a real face. The Canadian institute provided 20 unlabeled pictures to 260 participants; 10 of them were … Read more

This Viral Photo Taken in 1989 of a Man Smoking in McDonald’s is Not All it Seems

This Viral Photo Taken in 1989 of a Man Smoking in McDonald’s is Not All it Seems

Sitting in a McDonald’s restaurant smoking a cigarette while eating a burger, this “peak male specimen” apparently had his picture taken in 1989, according to the caption. The curious image, which has the overall tone and feel of a film photo taken in the late 1980s, was shared on X (formerly Twitter) where it has … Read more

AI Image of Clarke Family Fools Internet Into Believing ‘Cube’ Mystery

AI Image of Clarke Family Fools Internet Into Believing ‘Cube’ Mystery

In the last few days, the internet has been gripped by photos that tell the eerie mystery of the Clarke family and the cube they were buried in. But the images are AI-generated. A series of images, that have gone viral across social media, tell the bewildering tale of the Clarke family — consisting of … Read more

George Carlin’s Estate Sues Makers of AI-Generated Comedy Special in His Likeness

George Carlin’s Estate Sues Makers of AI-Generated Comedy Special in His Likeness

Legendary comedian George Carlin who passed in 2008. | Bonnie Geoge Carlin’s estate has begun legal action over an AI-generated hour-long comedy special created by a YouTube channel. Dudesy uploaded the video on January 9 featuring AI-generated audio that sounds like Carlin while the video contains a series of AI images that loosely relate to … Read more