James Vincent is a senior reporter at the Verge today explained asked him why this AI generated picture of the Pope matters because I think it is a minor milestone in terms of a fake AI image tricking a lot of people. When you zoom in when you look at the details they often reveal some inconsistency some blur or smear. These systems used to be very bad at generating hands the hands are better now as in the Pope image one of the hands was sort of okay and one was bad but you know these are challenges that will be overcome in time.
An AI-generated image of Cool Pope in immaculate drip went viral over the weekend and most everyone thought it was real. The Verge’s James Vincent explains how we should navigate our new internet reality.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Avishay Artsy and Siona Peterous, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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