{"id":224645,"date":"2025-11-06T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/fake-or-the-real-thing-how-ai-can-make-it-harder-to-trust-the-pictures-we-see"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:07:52","slug":"fake-or-the-real-thing-how-ai-can-make-it-harder-to-trust-the-pictures-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/fake-or-the-real-thing-how-ai-can-make-it-harder-to-trust-the-pictures-we-see","title":{"rendered":"Fake or the real thing? How AI can make it harder to trust the pictures we see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-or-the-real-thing-how-ai-can-make-it-harder-to-trust-the-pictures-we-see.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study has revealed that artificial intelligence can now generate images of real people that are virtually impossible to tell apart from genuine photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Using AI models ChatGPT and DALL\u00b7E, a team of researchers from Swansea University, the University of Lincoln and Ariel University in Israel, created highly realistic images of both fictional and famous faces, including celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>They found that participants were unable to reliably distinguish them from authentic photos\u2014even when they were familiar with the person\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has revealed that artificial intelligence can now generate images of real people that are virtually impossible to tell apart from genuine photographs. Using AI models ChatGPT and DALL\u00b7E, a team of researchers from Swansea University, the University of Lincoln and Ariel University in Israel, created highly realistic images of both fictional and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}