[Aerbil313]

> Imagine a massive flood of low-quality images relevant to current events (e.g. war), which are obviously fabricated to anyone remotely aware of AI generation.

Have you seen photorealistic Midjourney images? I can never distinguish many of them in a million years.

[refulgentis]

Yeahhh I unfortunately see this semi-regularly on Twitter now, and it's always an image of $OPPOSITION where the bit that is faked is $EXTREME_CARICATURE. There was a chilling one last night, so while it's fresh on my mind, I'm going to riff on it

Confirmation bias and...love for the outgroup...is so strong, that it's rare people admit they didn't know it was fake and remove it. Frequently, someone else hops in, to explain it feels true and represents how they understand $OPPOSITION's viewpoint anyway.

Once multiple people get involved, semi-frequently, it turns into an indictment of the person who pointed out the fake. Why? Even if it is a fake, the real ignorance exposed is that of the person pointing out the fake, as it's clearly representative of $OPPOSITION anyway, so they're at best naive, and at worst supportive of, $OPPOSITION.

[armchairhacker]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/. They range from practically-indistinguishable to ridiculously wrong, but the more details, the more they lean towards ridiculous.

It does make it easier, and who knows about the future. But right now if you generate an image you have to really look and there's a good chance at least something's off.

Specific example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1apyrwv/which_vide.... They are video games so already not realistic, but no gym has people stand around like that and all of them have some nonsensical equipment.

[addandsubtract]

Those are Dall-e images, not midjourney. I would hardly call them realistic. In fact, dall-e is trained/instructed not to output realistic images.