{"id":3178,"date":"2024-08-21T15:09:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2025-06-27T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:52:21","slug":"dont-believe-it-when-you-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2024\/08\/21\/dont-believe-it-when-you-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Believe It When You See It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Reinhard Kargl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of the public debate about AI has focused on the often bizarre errors and biases in AI-compiled facts and figures. But there is another, perhaps more sinister danger: we are now entering a new era in which photographic evidence can no longer be trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"618\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/456253849_122177478386214530_5060512705734501147_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/456253849_122177478386214530_5060512705734501147_n-1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/456253849_122177478386214530_5060512705734501147_n-1-400x343.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/456253849_122177478386214530_5060512705734501147_n-1-624x536.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the &#8220;1963 Mercedes 600 Pullman&#8221; never existed. Obvious mistakes (such as the nonsensical air vent and the missing hinge gap on the door&#8217;s lower section) make it easy to tell that this is just a rendering. And yet, most social media commenters were tricked into believing that this was a classic vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the rapid pace of development, obvious mistakes in AI-generated photographs will soon disappear. Soon it will be impossible to tell that a photograph or video was made up in a computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People have been conditioned to believe what they &#8220;see with their own eyes&#8221;. 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But there is another, perhaps more sinister danger: we are now entering a new era in which photographic evidence can no longer be trusted. Here is an example: Of course, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-journalism","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}