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How AI slop undermines our understanding of reality (socialwarming.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.

That's a poor conclusion. A similar image could be created using masks and AI inpainting. You could take a photo on a rainy day and add in the disaster components using GenAI.

That's definitely not the case in this scenario, but we shouldn't rely on things like verifying real-world locations to assume that GenAI wasn't involved in making a photo.