A recent improvement to the software used to create this image was made using mid-journey it's called and version five. One part of that is that these systems are trained on a lot of images scraped from the internet especially high quality images from stock sites like Getty images and Reuters. So there is this correspondence between the training data and the images that they are good at producing. And I think this is something that is going to be very important when we keep in mind the future media environment.
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.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices