It's hard to tell whether it's real or fake: AI-generated images appear in Google search results

IT House News on November 29th, recently, some netizens discovered that when entering the name of the late Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole on the Google search engine, the first few pictures in the search results were all generated by artificial intelligence. rather than actual photos. The images were generated by Midjourney, a tool that generates images based on natural language descriptions.

Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, mentioned this issue on X on Sunday and shared a screenshot. He wrote: "Seriously, don't believe anything you read online. It's so easy to fake stuff and you can't tell the difference between real and fake."

Bentley University professor Noah Giansiracusa noted on X that the AI-generated photo showed Kamakawiwoʻole playing guitar, yet the musician is best known for playing the ukulele. Giansiracusa wrote: "Google needs to step up their game and remove this AI-generated stuff from the first few results."

IT House noticed that this is not the first time that Google search engine has placed AI-generated photos in the first few results. According to Futurism, searches for legendary artists Edward Hopper and Johannes Vermeer also show up in the results for AI-generated photos.

In May, Google announced that it would launch a tool that would provide more information about image search results to make it easier for users to distinguish real images from fake ones

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