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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, April 3 (Xinhua) recently, some photos of former US President Donald Trump being arrested by New York police have appeared on the Internet, which has attracted a lot of attention. However, these photos are not real, but composite images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Experts warn that the composite images show a new reality: when major events occur, social media may be full of fake pictures and videos, further confusing the facts and misleading the public. therefore, there is an urgent need to deploy relevant technologies and formulate relevant policies to regulate similar technologies.

According to CTOnews.com, the photos of Trump's arrest were created by Elliot Higgins, founder of ringcat, a Dutch open source research media, using AI painting tool Midjourney. It is worth mentioning that Midjourney recently suspended the free trial on the grounds of abuse. Midjourney CEO and founder David Holz announced the decision that the free user traffic was too high and the trial was abused.

Higgins said he wanted to visualize the news of Trump's possible arrest, so he used the Midjourney text-to-image model to generate some realistic-looking photos and shared them on Twitter. The tweet was viewed nearly 5 million times in two days and garnered more than 79000 likes.

Artificial intelligence experts say that although the technology of making and generating false images is not new, the speed of technological progress in this field and people's abuse of technology are worthy of attention. "synthetic content is growing rapidly, and the gap between real and fake content is becoming more and more difficult to tell," says Munir Ibrahim of Truepic, a digital content analytics company.

Fortune pointed out that various AI image generation tools are now within reach, and they can quickly generate a large number of lifelike images after a simple command from the user. For example, the text-to-image model of Midjourney can now generate images that mimic the photo style of news organizations, so that these AI-generated images are expected to "fish in troubled waters" in a chaotic news environment.

Higgins believes that as composite images become more difficult to distinguish between true and false, the best way to combat false visual information is to raise public awareness and education, and social media companies can focus on developing new technologies that can identify AI-generated images and integrate them into their platforms.

The proliferation of fake images of "Trump's arrest" on the Internet also shows that there is a lack of corporate standards or government regulations to address the use of AI to create and spread lies. Experts agree that Trump's high profile makes it easy to spot fake photos of him, but fake photos of ordinary people are not so easy to identify, and the technology of making fake photos is still improving. Therefore, it is necessary to regulate the use of deep synthesis technology through legislation.

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