How to Tell if an Online Photo Is Fake

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How to Tell if an Online Photo Is Fake"


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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn In this story Phonies look less faux • Reverse image searches • T-shirts become blackboards • Celebrities shock. Or not • Primary sources reveal truths • AI gets


better quickly • Lighting looks unreal • Are you getting emotional?


In the photograph, Lionel Messi holds an Israeli flag. 


A screenshot showing the image on the soccer star’s Instagram page Oct. 31 was widely shared on Facebook and X. But the photo was a phony. 


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In the actual shot, he held a sign for Icons.com, a sports memorabilia company, not a flag. And the real photo appeared on Icon’s site, not on Messi’s Instagram page.


Manipulated images and fraudulent photos generated with artificial intelligence are proliferating online — and the problem will surely grow. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans think that AI will be


used to affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, according to an April survey from Elon University Poll and the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University in North


Carolina.


Fakes can be hard to spot. In a 2022 study in the journal Vision Research, participants not only struggled to distinguish real faces from fake faces but sometimes “believed fake faces to be


more real than real faces.”


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