false images that worry

Donald Trump arrested, kept on the ground and boarded, trying to flee, or a demonstrator in the arms of a CRS. These credible images are shared on social networks. The comments are serious, but the photos are fake, generated by artificial intelligence. To create them, you don’t have to be a computer genius. “We can play on the format, we can play on the light, we can play on a whole bunch of elements”explains Gérald Holubowicz, a journalist specializing in synthetic media.

An image generated in one minute

Within a minute, an almost perfect image is generated. Only a few details still elude the technology. The software, created a year ago, fuels misinformation. “We can imagine that many actors could seize these tools to try to push many narratives that would seek to mislead part of the population”analyzes Tristan Mendès-France, lecturer, specialist in digital cultures.