Every time you pick up your phone, you have to decide what's true and what's fake. And it's getting harder.
Every time you pick up your phone, you have to decide what's real and what's fake. Here are some tips to help you spot the difference.Only, it was branded as a fake by Australia's official historian at the time.
"In order to convey accurate battle impressions, I have made several composite pictures, utilising a number of negatives for the purpose," he wrote in the catalogue foreword.More than 100 years on, the technologies available to manipulate imagery have become more advanced. And the resulting images rarely come with a disclaimer.
With half of the image covered in blobs and the other half clean, it suggests that two separate images have beenInterestingly, when we ran WeVerify on another version of this image, the algorithm flagged the buildings rather than the storm. Regardless of how an image has been altered or created, sometimes the best way of deciding whether it's real is to look for cluesIn this case, a bit of research reveals that the hurricanes that regularly hit Florida look nothing like storms on the plains of Kansas.
Posting an image with incorrect context is one of the oldest tricks in the book – but it's also one of the most effective for those setting out to deceive.Running a reverse image search on the above image will return thousands of results from back in 2001, which is clear evidence that this photo was not taken recently.
Professor Thompson created this image using generative AI with the prompt: 'photorealistic stock image of a person's hands on a laptop'.While it's not perfectly realistic, it's less clear whether this is a doctored photo or a complete fiction.Social media is making it harder to tell Images are often compressed, ensuring they're quick to load and cheap to host, which can obscure the telltale signs of manipulation.When we see different presentations of the world "it makes it very difficult to have a common understanding of what is real", he explains.In general, anything shared by users – memes, jokes, lies, news articles, opinion columns, cat photos – are all lumped together under a single category. Content.
At worst, this can lead to conspiratorial thinking, where one looks so deeply that connections will inevitably be found where they don't really exist. Professor Thompson agrees that new forms of media literacy are "increasingly important in the digital age".Whether images have been doctored using technology invented last century or last week, the same rules apply.So, aside from the visual cues in the image itself, here are two key considerations for deciding if an image is real or not.
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