Incident 613: AI-Generated Images Available through Adobe Stock Misrepresent Real-World Events

Description: AI-generated images available through Adobe Stock, depicting realistic but fictional scenes of real-world events like wars and protests, have raised significant ethical concerns. These images blurred the lines between reality and fiction in journalistic contexts, prompting Adobe Stock to "crack down on AI-generated images that seem to depict real, newsworthy events and take new steps to prevent its images from being used in misleading ways."

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Alleged: Various AI image generators developed an AI system deployed by Adobe Stock, which harmed General public , Journalistic integrity and News sources.

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613

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Incident Date

2023-11-23

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Daniel Atherton

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These look like prizewinning photos. They’re AI fakes.

washingtonpost.com

washingtonpost.com · 2023

A young Israeli woman, wounded, clinging to a soldier's arms in anguish. A Ukrainian boy and girl, holding hands, alone in the rubble of a bombed-out cityscape. An inferno rising improbably from the tropical ocean waters amid Maui's raging …

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