Guarding against fake photos in the age of AI
CNN Digital's director of photography explains how new technology requires journalists to stay vigilant View in browser An exclusive inside look with your free CNN account 📸 Guarding against fake photos in the age of AI Eliot Higgins, founder and creative director of the investigative group Bellingcat, posted fake images of former President Donald Trump to Twitter last week. Higgins said he created them with Midjourney, an AI-image generator. (CNN Photo Illustration/From Midjourney/Eliot Higgins/Twitter) Manipulated images have been around for years, but the recent advancement of artificial intelligence, or AI, has made them more difficult to spot. Last week, AI-generated images purportedly showing former President Donald Trump being arrested following an imagined grand jury indictment quickly spread across Twitter. Even though these "deepfake" images were obviously false, because there had been no grand jury indictment o...