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One of these people is real and the other is AI – but which is which?

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source link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2024/04/08/ai-photograph-real-or-fake-adobe-firefly/
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One of these pictures of me is real and the other is AI – but which is which?

As new tech raises new questions about truth and creativity, conventional portraiture has been pitted against AI – with disturbing results

Abigail Buchanan

8 April 2024 • 8:00am
Abi vs Adobe Firefly

Which version of our writer Abigail is real?

Credit: Amit Lennon

Click on the faces throughout this piece that you think are real 

The two images don’t look exactly alike, but there are some uncanny similarities around the eyes, nose and mouth. There I am, on the right: a photograph of me taken recently in a studio in Brixton, south London. I perch in front of a green background, my shirt slightly creased. And there I am again, on the left. 

Except that person isn’t really me. 

It is an odd facsimile in a white T-shirt. She has preternaturally smooth skin, no imperfections, and long, glossy hair. This portrait was generated by artificial intelligence (AI), using just three data points from my face and a brief, eight-word prompt: ‘Woman in her 20s of white British descent...

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