(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . You're Breaking My Heart [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-10-21 You’re Breaking My Heart A crying girl holds her puppy while surrounded by floodwaters. I’ll admit it, this one moves me. I want to run up to her and comfort her. She must be cold and shivering. Where are her parents? Is she orphaned? Anything to give this poor girl some hope. But the photo is a fake. The tragedy in this photo was manufactured by AI and is being used to sow outrage. “IF ONLY WE DIDN’T SPEND MONEY ON ILLEGAL ALIENS!” it tells us, this horrible event could have been prevented. Poor, soaking, little white girls across the U.S.A. could avoid the effects of global warming, bad policy, denial and pollution. You would never have to see another girl suffer like this again. Except it is not real. It’s another day of Reality Warp. Share The Tell with Christine Axsmith AI Emotional Manipulations An essential citizen survival skill these days is being able to spot an AI fake. The Tell has introduced several clues to watch for - like perfectly smooth skin, extra fingers, missing limbs and oddly deep wrinkles. There’s also clues in a photograph’s background, like half of a chair missing, doors on the ceiling, nonsense street signs. We need a new level of common sense to function since 2023. Just yesterday, an older man was defrauded because an AI-generated voice which was trained on a recording of his son’s voice told him his son needed money. It wasn’t his son, but sounded just like him. Fraudsters took copies of his son’s voice - not much is needed - and created a copy that asked for cash. When his son’s voice asked him for money because of an emergency, he gave it. Political persuaders are also using AI imagery to get emotional reactions. In those cases, it is to support causes or issues. Or to just have fun, as seen in the Trump and the cats photos. Either way, emotional images are manufactured to trick us. Nonsense logos in AI-generated photo The WGRZ “Is-It-AI?” Checklist Regarding the girl-and-puppy photo above, WGRZ developed a checklist for how they check for fake AI images. They used TinEYE, a reverse-image search tool, to find other places where this photo was used. The most recommended online tools to detect AI images are TinEye, AI or Not and Hive Moderation. The girl-with-dog-in-flood viral image was copied all over the place - with a few telling exceptions . Places that did NOT publish this photo: A reputable news outlet A humanitarian agency A rescue team. If none of the above claim credit for the photo, then the WGRZ analysis leans towards the photo not being real. Because if a photo is going viral on X-Twitter, you know somebody is going to want the credit. The same reasoning supports a conclusion of “not real” because details of the situation are just not there. Details surrounding the photo are absent: Who is the girl? Where was this photo taken? Who took the photo? When did it happen? Again, someone would take credit for the photo, and even fight over credit for the photo, if it were real. A Diet of Sanity I’ve said it before and haven’t changed my mind yet: the net effect of AI is that all trust will be lost in online systems. If you can’t trust the document you are signing comes from a real source, you are going to want to see and sign the papers in person. If an email or voice can be mimicked, you won’t believe what you read or hear on the phone. What these masters of the universe are doing is undermining the systems they set up - with a lot of government money and support. In the end, you just have to shut off your computer and phone and go outside. Sorry to have to be the one to tell you… [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/21/2278341/-You-re-Breaking-My-Heart?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/