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Science Quickly

The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash

Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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AI-generated images of Katy Perry at Monday’s Met Gala looked so realistic they even duped her mom. And it just so happens that ChatGPT developer OpenAI released a new tool to detect fake images generated by DALL-E—the very next day.   Join Scientific American, Springer Nature and Nature Portfolio in Washington, D.C. on May 17 for Science on the Hill. Register now! Email us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new everyday: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for our daily newsletter.  Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happy Monday listeners. Let's kick off the week by catching up on some science news.

0:13.2

For science quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. Right over here guys, right over here, right over there.

0:24.0

Can we get turn around, please?

0:26.0

Turn it around, turn it up around.

0:28.0

If you enjoyed photos of the Red Carpet fashion from the Met Gala last Monday,

0:33.4

chances are good you encountered at least one artificial intelligence

0:37.3

generated fake.

0:38.3

Katie Perry posted screenshots suggesting that even her own mother

0:42.4

got duped by an AI-generated image

0:44.4

appearing to show the pop singer in a floral gown. It just so happens that on Tuesday

0:49.8

chat gp T developer Open AI announced a new tool designed to detect images made using the company's

0:56.1

Dolly 3 generator.

0:58.5

Open AI says internal tests found that the tool was able to identify about 98% of images generated by Dolly 3.

1:06.7

The creators did note, however, that any post- AI changes made to the images, including shifts

1:11.9

in coloring, made the tool more likely to fail.

1:15.0

Sam Gregory, executive director of technology-focused human rights nonprofit

1:19.3

witness, told NPR that good media literacy and common sense make a better defense against deepfakes

1:26.1

than currently available digital tools.

1:29.1

While a fake photo of Katie Perry may not pose a global threat, other images could have more serious implications, particularly during an election year.

1:39.0

Gregory noted that if just one image or video is circulating from a supposed event,

1:45.0

internet users should ask themselves why there aren't any corroborating sources.

1:50.0

He also suggested doing internet searches to try and confirm basic facts related to the images,

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