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A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose

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Even with Google’s watermarks and restrictions, a tool that creates believable flyover images is ripe for misuse, as Henk van Ess has already shown. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Even with Google’s watermarks and restrictions, a tool that creates believable flyover images is ripe for misuse, as Henk van Ess has already shown.

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