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AI expert says Princess Kate photo scandal shows our "sense of shared reality" being eroded


An expert on deepfakes says the scandal over Princess Kate's edited family photo shows how the rise of AI is eroding our trust in online media.

Neither she nor Kensington Palace provided any details of what she had altered on the photo, but one royal watcher told CBS News it could have been a composite image created from a number of photographs. "It shows our vulnerability towards content and towards how we make up our realities," Ramak Molavi Vasse'i, a digital rights lawyer and senior researcher at the Mozilla Foundation, told CBS News. Creating a "lie detector" for deepfakes05:36 He said tips about how to identify AI in imagery, such as watching to see how many times someone blinks in a video, can quickly become outdated as technologies are developing at lightning speed.

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