Yet that does not mean an end to fake images, according to Henry Ajder, an AI expert and presenter who is on the European advisory council for Meta's Reality Labs. He said tools such as OpenAI's"The only way that realistic fakery has been possible in the past to the level we're seeing now daily was in Hollywood studios," Ajder said.
He and another expert offered four tips to help distinguish AI-generated images from the real thing. One telltale sign that an image was on Midjourney is a"plasticky" appearance, but the platform may iron out this issue as it develops. Some examples include checking whether the lighting on a person in an image is in the right place; whether someone's head is slightly too big; or even over-exaggerated eyebrows and bone structure.
Other errors included the strange shape of his ears as well as the distance between his glasses and their shadow on his face. Aesthetic factors are not always enough to identify deepfakes, especially as AI tools start to become more sophisticated.