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Text-to-image AI: powerful, easy-to-use technology for making art – and fakes

  • Written by Hany Farid, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
imageA synthetic image generated by mimicking real faces, left, and a synthetic face generated from the text prompt ‘a photo of a 50-year man with short black hair,’ right.Hany Farid using StyleGAN2 (left) and DALL-E (right), CC BY-ND

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