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Why comparing AI image editing to Photoshop downplays the risks

AI tools are testing whether the scale and speed of the tech has landed us firmly in uncharted territory.

These might be old problems — Photoshop let you do all sorts of awful manipulations to celebrity photographs, and even in the days before computers, you could create convincing fake images to mislead people. But generative AI tools are testing whether the scale and sophistication of the tech and the speed of its adoption with little oversight has landed us firmly in uncharted territory. I’ll just be direct here: my view is that people say “it’s just like Photoshop” to diminish these new problems that AI tools are causing and to make them seem like they’re already solved or not worth considering.

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