Midjourney, an AI tool, is creating eerily realistic images, prompting concerns about the potential impact on the spread of misinformation, especially in the context of the 2024 election. Users on Reddit and Twitter have expressed amazement and concern over the tool's ability to generate lifelike images, particularly in everyday settings such as water reflections and ordinary people. The tool's potential to create convincing but false visuals has raised fears about its influence on the information space during a significant election year.
These are artificially generated images made in Midjourney to look incredibly realistic. Given 2024 is one of the biggest election years in history, it's unfortunately very likely generated images like these are going to play a role in the information space. https://t.co/MtbbtrraRp https://t.co/BknZo8I27k
Some ordinary Midjourney photos. If someone sent these to you, would you suspect that they are AI generated? https://t.co/A6qCtvlG0D https://t.co/qwSvW8ijls
MidJourney does kind of an amazing, and sometimes beautifully weird job with water and reflections in artistic photographic images. https://t.co/qBNOynWYnQ
Midjourney can make some But what about everyday photos of everyday people? I found a technique to do so, and it's honestly pretty scary how good it is.
These AI images are almost impossible to comprehend as fake (until you look closely) Prompting Midjourney with "phone photo" adds an eerie sense of photorealism. From Reddit user u/KudzuEye https://t.co/ZcESBDA2tS