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From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam

  • Written by Renee DiResta, Research Manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University
imageMany of the AI images generated by spammers and scammers have religious themes.immortal70/iStock via Getty Images

If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of professional artists, or majestic log cabin...

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