Thailand<\/a>.\u201d The Daily Star wrote: \u201cThe team of five blokes and one woman shared a snap of themselves in frilly dresses with the nicked suspect on Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\nThere was just one problem: while the arrest was real, the image was an AI-generated fake.<\/p>\n
The AI-generated image that was shared on the police station\u2019s Facebook page and was used in news publications including in the UK and US on the assumption that, because it had come from an official source, it was a genuine image. Illustration: Tha Luang provincial police station\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The real image, which has now been posted on the Facebook page of Tha Luang police station in Thailand, shows the five male police officers in their regular clothes. The woman dressed as a dancer is not in the original at all.<\/p>\n
The administrator in charge of the station\u2019s Facebook account, which released the AI-generated image, had been trying to create \u201ca friendlier image\u201d for the police, intending to show \u201ca cute and humorous side\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Sun and others have now made clear their stories were based on a fake AI image supplied by the police.<\/p>\n
The absurdity of the image may have rung alarm bells with some readers. However, the fact that the faked image came from a seemingly official source has highlighted the difficulties media outlets face in verifying images.<\/p>\n
There are no foolproof ways to check whether an image is real without a direct relationship with the person who took the picture. It is becoming a time-consuming and precarious task for those overseeing the images used by large outlets, and AI verification tools are not reliable enough.<\/p>\n
The problem is made even more difficult as the use of AI-generated imagery has crept into seemingly official sources. As a result, editors are braced for the reality that it is unlikely that all AI images will be spotted before publication.<\/p>\n
Media outlets and other organisations are also facing the opposite problem \u2013 with viewers wrongly suspecting that some genuine images have been generated with AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an arresting image and an irresistible story. A group of tough Thai police officers \u2013 five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-700764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}