With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT, there are likely to be many cases of fraud and deception in the future. The fact that new technologies are also being used for morally questionable purposes is hardly anything new. Nevertheless, we will probably be confronted with it more frequently in everyday life in the future.
This is shown, among other things, by the current example of Jos Avery, who has so far uploaded black-and-white portraits for his more than 33,000 followers. According to his own statements, he did not do this himself, but had it created by an AI.
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Jos Avery has on his Instagram profile @averyseasonart Uploaded portraits that until recently he claimed were taken with a Nikon D810. The images are mostly black and white and have a very similar style. All with a washed out background and seemingly real people.
Avery also gave names to the people and told anecdotes from their alleged lives. Unfortunately it was all fictitious as he admits to arstechnica.com. When he first addressed Tech Magazine in January, he wrote:
“[Mein Instagram-Konto] has grown to almost 12,000 followers since October, more than I expected. Because I post AI-generated, human-made portraits there. Probably 95%+ of followers don’t know that. I’d like to come clean.”
He created the photos with Midjourney and then edited them with Photoshop. While his followers are mostly disappointed with the lack of communication, many continue to follow him and endorse his AI art.
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In fact, his following will soon have tripled since first writing to arstechnica.com. He now annotates his posts with references to the fact that the images are AI-generated and the stories are made up.
It is often not that easy to tell the difference between AI images and real photos. It is best to convince yourself of this.
In this article we have prepared a quiz for you to put your eye to the test.
Tens of thousands fell for a fake. What do you think of AI generated art? Is that still art? How do you like the pictures? Does the fact that Avery post-processed the images help? Does that make a difference? Have you ever created AI art? Let us know in the comments.
