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AI-Generated Fake War Images Passed Off as Real
Images depicting war-torn Ukraine are being generated by AI services, sold on stock photo websites and used in media coverage of the conflict.
While I was scrolling through the hundreds of licensable photographs of destroyed buildings, tanks with flags and portraits of refugees and survivors, I came across an image that caused a different kind of concerned panic for me. While these formal questions of aesthetics and meaning are interesting topics of debate in the art world, it becomes much more difficult and dangerous in the field of war photography showing human rights abuses. And while the promoters of the new consumer-ready AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGTP, Midjourney and RunwayML use the rhetoric of inclusiveness and egalitarian access to technology, the distrust created by these images inevitably serves the powerful perpetrators of atrocities.
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