Artificial intelligence tools can create completely new images and videos. But now they can also make much smaller improvements by inserting AI elements into real photos, further blurring the line between what’s real and what’s fake.
In this quiz, we took photos taken by New York Times reporters and edited them using these AI tools. Your job: Point to the part of the photo that is generated by the AI.
1. Tap on the part of the photo that is generated by AI.
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2. What did the AI create in this sunset photo?
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3. What do you think about this protest?
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5. How about this entrance?
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Was it easier or harder than you imagined? The technology is still far from perfect — some of the people it created had more than five fingers, for example. But the images were incredibly easy to create and required almost no expertise. As technology improves and more tools are released, expect to see more images that have been subtly altered by AI
