Editing a PR photo is not remarkable, but these days a fear of AI fakes means things are more complicated.
and her children on Monday — deeming the image to have been manipulated after spotting some inconsistencies — certain sections of the internet took it as proof that the entire picture was an elaborate fake.
In the case of an image such as Catherine’s, which is scrutinised to such an impossibly high degree, online pundits were even pointing to elements that to my eye are completely benign — one of the children’s fingers, one of the people’s teeth — as evidence of AI generation. Which on the one hand shows that some people really just see what they want to see, but on the other shows how ill-equipped many of us are to deal with a real concern that we can’t trust any digital image.
Despite app stores being filled with software that claim to be able to detect fake photos, the technology to scan an image to determine definitively if and how it had been edited, doctored or generated does not yet exist. Some apps and programs that generate or edit images attach special metadata that helps prevent them from being passed off as unedited, but others do not, while many technological analysis methods are highly specialised and can be thrown off by sophisticated fakers.
“It is important to remember that image manipulation has been happening for many years prior to this technology getting to the point it is at today,” he said.“There’s been plenty of magazine covers and so on, images that have been doctored in some way, and there’s no real way of knowing unless there’s a leak or if we find something strange with it.”
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