Google’s new image search tools could help you identify AI-generated fakes

In a world increasingly filled with photorealistic images that have either been altered with AI editing tools or created using a generative AI bot like Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, how do you know if a picture is real? One thing that could help is a new tool Google is rolling out this summer for English-language searches in the US called About this image."

It's similar to the about this" drop-down that appears on links in regular search results but is now available in Google image searches. When you perform a reverse image search" by uploading an image of unknown provenance, you'll now see a menu option that lets you find out when that picture and others similar to it were first indexed by Google - as well as where on the web it...

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