INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Seems Google still cannot differentiate between AI-generated photos and genuine ones
According to a report in Business Insider, an AI-generated image of the late Hawaiian singerIsrael Kamakawiwo?ole is currently showing up as
the top search result on Google when you search his name
Kamakawiwo?ole's photo was discovered by Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.The professor
spotted the change and shared a screenshot of it on X, formerly Twitter."Seriously, don't trust anything you see online anymore
You cannot tell the difference," he wrote.The main image that appeared when Mollick searched did a Google search for the singer
Kamakawiwo?ole is a Midjourney creation right from Reddit
These AI-generated images of Kamakawiwo?ole are reported to have been first posted on Reddit in July
TOI-Tech searched for "Israel Kamakawiwo?ole" photos and found the AI-generated images continuing to appear among the top search results.For
those unaware, Kamakawiwo?ole was famous for his acoustic and rendition of Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow." He died in 1997 at the age
of 38.Google to watermark AI-generated imagesEarlier this year, Google said that it is adding two new features to its image search to reduce
the spread of misinformation
make sure they add the same markup to the files they put out
Midjourney and Shutterstock are among the publishers Google has on board, and the goal is to ensure that all AI content that appears in
search results is flagged as such.
