President Macron protesting his own pension reform?
Your eyes don't deceive you.
Amid ongoing controversy over pension reform in France and social unrest sparked by President Macron's controversial bill, netizens turned to artificial intelligence (AI).
The last few days, very realistic images created using AI tools have been circulating on social networks.
They appeared thanks to the latest version of the Midjourney neural network, created by the independent research laboratory Midjourney Inc, located in San Francisco. The program generates images based on descriptions called «hints», similar to how Stable Diffusion and DALL-E create images.
The latest version has been available since March 16 in the open beta testing mode, i.е. is open to anyone interested in using the product, and the evolution is well under way. Since one sentence is enough to create any image, Internet users naturally jumped at the opportunity to blow off steam by creating images that reflect the situation in France. role of a demonstrator against his own pension reform or a scavenger.
Just see for yourself.
Users have not bypassed the United States either: images that depict the arrest of Donald Trump have circulated on the network. Ever since the former president warned that he could be detained on March 21 in connection with a bribe paid from campaign funds to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, users have begun to dream…
Thanks to artificial intelligence, their dreams come true.
The results are impressive and slightly disturbing.
Despite the absurdity of these images and the irony, experts remind that if these deep fakes look so convincing, then the technology can be used to spread misinformation or fraud.
US Federal Trade Commission warned consumers to take a closer look at AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft's Vall-E, ElevenLabs' voice cloning app, and others. For example, the latter can convincingly replicate the voice to make victims of scams believe that their loved ones are in trouble and urgently need money.
At this stage, dreams of AI become nightmares.