Social media users fall for AI-generated images of children 'engaging in satanic ritual'

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Social media users fall for AI-generated images of children 'engaging in satanic ritual'
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Do these pictures show children taking part in a 'satanic ceremony'? No, they are in fact generated by artificial intelligence.

"No, these are not pics actually taken. They were generated just in fun," the user wrote in one of the posts.

"There are no children that were harmed in these images because there were no children to begin with-it's all computer generated. Midjourney made these images for me," they added. The post features a screenshot of an interaction with Midjourney's bot on Discord, in which the user included a prompt ordering the generation of an image of"children sitting on a carpet with a pentagram in the middle of a library".on ways to distinguish genuine images from computer-generated ones, based on advice from specialists.

Experts pointed out common visual cues that can be used to identify AI-generated images -- such as inconsistencies, blurry sections or details in the hands -- as the technology remains limited in generating realistic limbs.For example, some of the photos show more than five fingers on the children's hands, while other photos show inconsistent limbs and incomplete facial features.

The Pumpkin Empress's May 9 Facebook post also denied the images were related to SatanCon. It reads:"This is not the satanic book club in Pennsylvania or wherever that was approved. This is not Satancon. I'm not a satanist."

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