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AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works − here’s why they fool you and how to spot them

  • Written by Arryn Robbins, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond
imageA beautiful kitchen to scroll past – but check out the clock.Tiny Homes via Facebook

I’m more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I wind down at the end of the day with a scroll binge, taking in videos of Italian grandmothers making pasta or baby pygmy hippos frolicking.

For a while, my feed was filled with...

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