Fake videos and photos are more prevalent than ever. Here's how to make sure you don't get duped. (From 2020)
, will help you here. If you’ve never done a reverse image search, you basically upload an image you’ve seen and the search engine will surface other examples of that image or similar images. It’s the best way to find out if the suspect image you found is actually altered or a composite, or taken in Spain in 2014 rather than Nebraska in 2020.
Some platforms, like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook have been making concerted efforts to post fact-checks or flag dubious information themselves. Facebook even has image-manipulation detection technology. However, most measures put in place by platforms have been both inconsistently and imperfectly deployed, so if you are going to be getting your news from social media, Golbeck recommends trusting some platforms over others simply on the strength of their community discourse.
That luck will be short-lived: According to O’Brien, artificial intelligence will soon push the verisimilitude of computer-generated fake images and videos beyond what even skilled human editors can produce. “Citizens are helpless,” says Shen. “I can’t in good conscience say that they should be able to decide for themselves what is real or fake because they can’t.
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