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The Pope’s Cloak Is Here To Destroy Your Faith


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Future generations will acknowledge the change in vibe. It happened last weekend, when all of a sudden social media feeds are filled with pictures of Pope Francis, typically a pious and simple guy who looks like a boss in a sleek white life jacket. It instantly became a meme, a LOL in a sea of ​​bad news. It’s also not real. Someone created the image using artificial intelligence Mid-Cruise tool. But it fooled a lot of people – so much so that the news outlets started call it “one of the first cases of widespread disinformation stemming from artificial intelligence.”

Just typing that sentence was haunted. Like the first time you see someone in a red robe in The Handmaid’s Tale. Not that this signals astigmatism. After all, it’s just an image of the pope looking at a fly. But what if it was an image claiming to be the battlefield in the war in Ukraine? Or did President Biden attend a secret meeting of some kind? The ability of AI to generate that kind of misinformation is difficult.

Causing many people to fall into a disaster Volodymyr Zelensky’s deepfake Of course, it takes more work than fooling them with a silly picture of a pope. Like Charlie Warzel shown IN Atlantic This week, people are using “various experiences to try to find the truth,” and it’s easier to believe that Pope Francis will wear a puffer shirt than it is with AI images of the former president. Donald Trump is arrested it’s real. So it’s not hard to see why so many people just see them, giggle and keep scrolling without questioning their authenticity.

But this does not set a disturbing precedent. The creator of the Pope Cloak is not trying to fool anyone. In fact, he told BuzzFeed News he just stumbles across shroom and tries to come up with funny images. But what if it was part of a disinformation campaign? A lot of AI-generated content is so clean that it’s hard for human eyes and ears to detect its origin.

Viewers will probably never know that Anthony Bourdain’s voice was faked in the documentary Walker if director Morgan Neville doesn’t speak New Yorkers. Deepfakes have been used as a political tool. As such, skeptics can refer to reliable news sources if they suspect an image is fake, but trust in the media is gone. approaching record lows. If anyone could create an image of anything now, and faith in any source could debunk that image at an all-time low, then who would believe his lying eyes? Surname?

Days after AI-generated images of Pope Francis went viral, the pope was taken to a hospital in Rome for respiratory infections. He’s progressed since then, but when that (real) news spread, it got lost in the midst of stories of fake images. The pope is trending for two very different reasons, and at first glance it is difficult to determine which is the main reason.

The age of social media has turned Very Online into pretty good detectives. Skepticism reigns. But so are conspiracy theories. outside post-truth era is a time when persuasive images, texts and even videos can be created out of thin air. One of the great promises of the Internet is that anyone can broadcast information to a much larger audience than before. Over the years, liars have been easier to spot: bad URLs, lousy photoshop, typos—all of which have driven scoundrels away. AI can solve their mistakes. I’m no Chicken Little, but maybe I haven’t been fooled by the image of the sky falling.

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