How to spot fake AI photos | Hany Farid | TED April 2025

(8:20) I think this image is a bit of a metaphor for how a lot of us feel. We feel like hostages. We don't know what to trust anymore. We don't know what is real. What is fake. But we don't have to be hostages. We don't have to succumb to the worst human instincts that pollute our online communities. We have agency, and we can effect change.
(11:02) We're at a fork in the road. One path, we can keep doing what we've been doing for 20 years, allowing technology to rip us apart as a society, sowing distrust, hate, intolerance. Or we can change paths. We can find a new way to leverage the power of technology to work for us and with us, and not against us. That choice is entirely ours.