AI image generation is progressing at astronomical speeds. Can we still tell if an image is fake?
Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was tricked by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies frolicking in their garden. The first of five photographs of “Cottingley Fairies”, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917. Wikipedia Today, it’s hard to believe those photos could have fooled …