Fake AI images are flooding the Internet. Here's how to recognize them

One of the phenomena triggered by the AI boom in recent years is deepfakes. The term is made up of the words deep learning and fake.

Deep learning refers to machine learning methods, while a fake is a forgery, an imitation or a hoax. A deepfake is therefore a forgery created with the help of AI processes.

These can be fake computer-generated photos of known people, images, or videos in which faces have been replaced with others, or even voice recordings or messages in which a known voice says phrases that it has never actually uttered.

Such forgeries of images, videos, and sound recordings have always existed. However, thanks to AI technology, these fakes are now near perfect and difficult to distinguish from authentic recordings.

What’s more, the required software is available to ever