AI photo editing: What you see isn't what you get

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey at wbur.org/survey. The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins talks about Israel's preemptive missile strike on the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and what might follow. And, Google's new Pixel 9 comes with new artificial intelligence capabilities. Axios' Ina Fried joins us to talk about the ethical implications of AI photo editing. Then, political institutions aren't known for taking risks. But in his new book, election forecaster Nate Silver examines why the 2024 race is different.

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1:00.3	Is it already suddenly fake?
1:03.0	Kind of, but in a way that I think is largely acceptable.
1:08.0	When you put that line of cocaine or that humpback whale,
1:11.0	now it's suddenly no longer capturing reality in any stretch of the imagination.
1:16.7	AI photo editing tools at everyone's fingertips.
1:20.1	Who needs reality anyway? It's Monday, August 26th, and this is here and now any time from NPR and W.B.
1:37.0	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:41.0	Today on the show, with AI photos, what you see is not what you get.
1:48.0	Also, election forecaster Nate Silver on the betting markets for elections and what he's watching in the race for president.
1:56.0	I mean in our model they basically more than doubled from 27% to 54% their chances of winning by having Harris instead of Biden.
2:03.6	But first, we will start the show in the Middle East.
2:07.1	Once again, tense after an Israeli attack in Lebanon
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