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Google appears to be introducing tools to make it easier to assess the context and credibility of search results.
The internet has been flooded with AI-generated images for some time now, but no one would mistake these strange viral photos for real artistic masterpieces.
If there is any confusion, it seems to be on the side of the internet itself. Google has been caught using artificial intelligence to push imitations of famous paintings to the top of search results, according to a report. futurism.
First, when an art lover typed in “Edward Hopper,” it returned an image of a woman staring thoughtfully out a window. The work had some familiar attributes in the work of the legendary American artist, evoking themes of domestic isolation, introspection and containment. Nevertheless, its flat, artificial sheen did nothing to mimic Hopper’s brushstrokes.
Other apparent flaws included strangely conspicuous red ears, forearms, and fingers fused together, and nothing visible beyond the ominous yellow fog outside the window.
Now, if you want to check out the work of the old Dutch master Vermeer, it looks like you’ll come across a strangely realistic version of him. girl with a pearl earring (circa 1665) Scroll down to see the real thing.
In fact, the Vermeer impostor is actively endorsed by the Dutch Mauritshuis, which owns the original. The museum called on fans to create a copy of the work as a stand-in while it was on loan to the Rijksmuseum, but this version is known as. girl with shiny earrings, Generated by German AI artist Julian van Dieken. Its release was met with considerable controversy.
After an AI tribute to Hopper was spotted at the top of Google search results, the company worked to fix the problem, but apparently couldn’t prevent it from happening again with another artist. For now, these AI-generated fakes are fooling Google’s algorithms, but they’re still easy for most people to identify and ignore. But as the tools become more sophisticated, one can only guess what kind of chaos awaits.
A Google spokesperson said, “We are rolling out new tools to help people quickly and easily assess the context and credibility of an image, including the ‘About This Image’ tool and markup-based image labels for AI-generated images. It’s expanding,” he said. futurism. “But given the scale of the open web, it’s possible that our system won’t always pick the best image, regardless of how the image was generated or whether it was generated by AI. “
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