How to identify misinformation amid the rise of AI [Video]

(WXYZ) — For many of us, news and information are available at our fingertips, but so is AI-generated content.

Photos, videos, and even voice recordings. Wayne County Sheriff’s Office Digital Forensics Expert Britton Foreman said right now, we’re seeing more of the negative impacts of AI technology.

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“School bullying right, that’s a big one. Revenge porn, that’s another big one where you see a lot of these revenge porn cases where these people they’ll go in there, they’ll doctor something that didn’t actually happen, put it out there and it looks real, but it’s not,” Foreman said.

Although it can be difficult, Foreman said there are some ways you can spot AI-generated images and …