We can't trust photos anymore

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week Apple announced its first AI iPhone with features that will make it even easier to edit your photos. But manipulating reality worries photojournalists like Fred Ritchin, who says these advancements pose a lot of ethical questions. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Synthetic image created by DreamStudio in response to this text prompt from Fred Ritchin: "A photograph of a soldier in the Vietnam War taking a selfie." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Remember the time Sean got fooled by Puffer Pope?
0:04.0	Today explained, Sean Ramos for him, this past Saturday, against my better judgment,
0:08.0	I was scrolling the feeds, liking the tweets, and then I saw something glorious.
0:14.0	Cool Pope, Papa Francis, in an epic white puffer.
0:19.0	He's got the cross dangling over the jacket.
0:22.0	He looks like he's on his way to save humanity from
0:24.2	eternal damnation and he's going to be warm as hell while he does it.
0:28.2	Wasn't real, it was AI. In a moment of equal cultural significance surely a
0:33.6	a i trickery prompted Taylor Swift to endorse
0:36.2	comala Harris Taylor talks about being made aware of a i of me falsely
0:41.0	endorsing Donald Trump she said it conjured up her fears about AI.
0:47.0	You can already manipulate images on your phone, but this week Apple dropped the first AI iPhone.
0:53.2	Coming up on today explained what happens when you can't believe your eyes.
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