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A fake image showing a large explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Monday, causing much confusion as a wave of social media accounts including multiple verified ones amplified its circulation..
But this isnt the first time AI has managed to fool top media houses..
Last month, another piece of fake news went viral containing AI-generated images of a man that supposedly died after undergoing multiple surgeries to look like the BTS boy band star Jimin...
While realistic images are fairly easy to produce thanks to the onset of tools like Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion, on-ground reporting is near impossible to replicate, making it difficult to create a convincing fake...
As a result, AI-generated images often distort the hands of human subjects, adding or removing fingers or twisting them unnaturally..
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