The Internet Is Full of Deepfakes, and the Sky Is Full of Trash Science Quickly

AI-generated images of Katy Perry at Monday’s Met Gala looked so realistic they even duped her mom. And it just so happens that ChatGPT developer OpenAI released a new tool to detect fake images generated by DALL-E—the very next day.  
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