"The retouched photo of Kate Middleton is a poorly done Photoshop job, artificial intelligence has nothing to do with it": this is the opinion given to ANSA by Vincenzo Cosenza - a digital expert who is carrying out various works on image-generating AI - after the debate on the inconsistencies of the photo posted directly on the royal couple's Instagram profile.
It was picked up and then withdrawn by important news agencies such as Associated Press, Reuters and Getty Images, today the princess apologized.
"The kill notification was issued by the newspapers - explains Cosenza - after a careful examination of the image by a trained eye and not by a particular software. Many users online, especially those who follow the events of the royal family, had also pointed out the problems. The image is not a fake generated by artificial intelligence, it is just the case of a Photoshop intervention done by an amateur."
The incident comes at a time when there is alarm about the capabilities of artificial intelligence to create realistic images, videos and voices from simple text and without any particular technological skills.
"The problem of the veracity of images is accentuated by AI - observes the expert - The cases of modification or the creation of a fake will grow to the nth degree and we will have to doubt everything, start acquiring a different mindset also because at the moment there is no software capable of accurately detecting an image generated by artificial intelligence. Even those for discovering text generated by AI do not work well. Some companies such as Adobe (the parent company of Photoshop, ed.), now put a they stamp the photos generated by artificial intelligence and also add metadata, but even this is not enough, at the moment there is no certain defense", concludes Cosenza.
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