April 8, 2024, 6 a.m. | Alex Hern UK technology editor

Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian www.theguardian.com

Tell-tale signs of generative AI images are disappearing as the technology improves, and experts are scrambling for new methods to counter disinformation

With more than 4,000 shares, 20,000 comments, and 100,000 reactions on Facebook, the photo of the elderly woman, sitting behind her homemade 122nd birthday cake, has unquestionably gone viral. “I started decorating cakes from five years old,” the caption reads, “and I can’t wait to grow my baking journey.”

The picture is also unquestionably fake. If the curious …

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