AI Images Detectors Are Being Used to Discredit the Real Horrors of Israel And Palestine WarThis comes from 404media.co which claims a horrible find: “Online AI image detecting tools that may or may not work are labeling real photographs from the war in Israel and Palestine as fake, creating what a world leading expert called a “second level of disinformation.”This is what 404Media Emanuel Mailberg wrote:A free AI image detector that’s been covered in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal is currently identifying a photograph of what Israel says is a burnt corpse of a baby killed in Hamas’s recent attack on Israel as being generated by AI.However, the image does not show any signs it was created by AI, according to Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on digitally manipulated images.The image was first tweeted by Israel’s official Twitter account, as well as the official Twitter account of the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, after Israel, president Joe Biden, and several media outlets said that 40 Israeli babies were beheaded by Hamas in its attack. No evidence of these alleged beheadings have been made public yet, and that statement has been walked back entirely by the White House, and to a lesser extent, Israel.The idea that the photograph was AI-generated started after it was tweeted out by conservative Jewish commentator Ben Shapiro on Thursday morning. That afternoon, Jackson Hinkle, who has more than half a million Twitter followers, tweeted a screenshot of Shapiro’s tweet sharing the image, and a screenshot of the free AI image detector tool, AI or Not, made by a company Optic, which determined the image was made by AI. When we ran the image through Optic’s tool ourselves, the tool again said the image is AI generated.The idea that this image is AI-generated has spread widely on Twitter, and is being used to suggest that official Israeli accounts are spreading AI-generated misinformation.Farid’s analysis is based on the fact that AI image generators are currently consistently unable to properly replicate reality as it’s captured in the photo.“One of the things these generators have trouble with is highly structured shapes and straight lines,” Farid told me on a call. “If you see the leg of the table and the screw, that all appears perfectly and that doesn’t typically happen with AI generators.”We Need Congress To Take Action Against AI Images And War And Prohibit The Use Of Such SoftwareWe can’t have this problem active and destabilizing information related to the war or any war or action or news. Congress must focus on making laws to stop this, as soon as possible.
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