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  • black and white side-view of head with dollar bill taped over eyes

    AI model favors wealthier, western stuff

    OpenAI's CLIP performs poorly on images that portray low-income and non-Western lifestyles, research finds.

  • person with head and face painted white

    AI image generator serves up racial, gender stereotypes

    What does a person look like? If you use the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion to get answers, too frequently you'll see images of light-skinned men.

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    What are the problems with deepfake porn?

    "Deepfake porn" is on the rise. Here's how it harms the people it purports to depict.

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    How kids with autism process visual illusions

    Children with autism may perceive visual illusions differently than neurotypical children do, research finds.

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    Health stock photos skew too young, light-skinned, rich

    It's tough to find health stock photos, particularly free ones, showing darker-skinned people, research finds.

  • 3 versions each of 6 different common images: curious george, where's waldo, pikachu, fruit of the loom, the monopoly man, and c3po

    Mandela Effect test: Which of these images is correct?

    Can you pick out the correct version of these famous pop culture icons? If not, that's the Mandela Effect in action.

  • woman looks disappointed at laptop screen

    Gender bias lingers in these Google image searches

    A Google image search for a job title like "CEO" might show more women than in the past, but what if you add a location?

  • hands hold phone taking pic of green food

    These key qualities attract ‘likes’ on Instagram

    Feature complexity and design complexity are two key characteristics that bring in likes on Instagram, research finds.

  • three lines with inward or outward arrow-type ends. They appear to be different lengths but are not

    Hand gestures can make this illusion less tricky

    The Müller-Lyer illusion, a set of lines or sticks whose lengths appear to vary due to stylized arrow marks, shows the power of gestures in gauging size.

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    Method lets AI create better original images

    Researchers report a new method for controlling how AI systems create images that meet a specific set of conditions.

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    ‘Location spoofing’ creates deepfake satellite images

    Researchers identify new ways to detect "deepfake geography," warn of the dangers of falsified geospatial data, and call for geographic fact-checking.

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    Deep-learning algorithm can de-noise images

    A new deep-learning algorithm can de-noise images to reveal otherwise invisible details. Here's how it outdoes other de-noising algorithms.