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Seeing It Not Always Believing: How to Spot Fake AI Images
It all started with a fake Winnie the Pooh crockpot.
I was on social media and spotted this adorable crockpot. The problem was its not real.
Here is a real crockpot you can purchase:
Redditors started to come out of the woodwork that it was fake.
“AI cannot do letters or numbers correctly or cohesively,” the user wrote. “Look at the ‘goole cure’ and even the squished up ‘Walmart’ on the box in the background.”
The user added that whoever created the image prompted AI to make the crockpot image, then edited “Winnie the Pooh” and crockpot onto the image to make it look real.
How Are These Images Created?
It works by a user feeding a prompt into an AI art generator, which processes the request and delivers the desired text, image, audio or other output. These generators are a form of generative AI and use large language models trained on millions of data points to understand different prompts.
