THE dawn of generative AI, an advanced form of machine intelligence, has flooded social media with computer-produced images of people.
These AI-generated people, generally referred to as deepfakes, are usually a Frankenstein-cocktail of hundreds of different faces that the AI has ‘seen’ on the internet.
But a worrying trend may be emerging.
A woman claims a deepfake doppelganger of a dead relative has to surface online, in social media memes, fundraisers, and even puzzles.
Scrolling on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Sara Burningham, a podcast and documentary producer at Slate Magazine, stumbled across a “janky AI” image of five elderly men dressed like war veterans.
Below the photo it says, “The real heroes in America are not in Hollywood.”
The image bares all the hallmarks of a deepfake: extra fingers, a gibberish language, and …