They often lack facial expressions or subtle body movements that real people make. Synthetic videos have their own oddities, like slight mismatches between sound and motion and distorted mouths. To listen to this episode, play the audio at the top of the page or subscribe. This story is adapted from an episode of Life Kit, NPR's podcast with tools to help you get it together. If you look closer, his fingers don't seem to actually be grasping the coffee cup he appears to be holding.

Take the synthetic image of the Pope wearing a stylish puffy coat that recently went viral. If an image includes multiple people, there may be even more irregularities. Generators can struggle with creating realistic hands, teeth and accessories like glasses and jewelry. The current wave of fake images isn't perfect, however, especially when it comes to depicting people. And technology to create videos out of whole cloth is rapidly improving, too. Thanks to image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, AI-generated images are more realistic and more available than ever. So what do you need to know about sorting fact from AI fiction? And how can we think about using AI responsibly? How to spot AI manipulation Amid debates about how artificial intelligence will affect jobs, the economy, politics and our shared reality, one thing is clear: AI-generated content is here.Ĭhances are you've already encountered content created by generative AI software, which can produce realistic-seeming text, images, audio and video.

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