College basketball star Angel Reese is going viral, after some artificially intelligence created graphic images of her bags going viral on social media, Media Take Out has learned.
Angel Reese shut down any and all discussion of “crazy and weird” salacious photos that surfaced of her online. According to the LSU Forward, the images are “AI-generated.”
“Creating fake AI pictures of me is crazy and weird AF!” Reese wrote on X. “Like I know I’m fine & seem to have an appeal to some but I’m literally 21 and yall doing this bs when I would neverrrrrr.”
Fake or doctored images show up all over the internet these days, and are often harmless.
You’re probably familiar with the amusing effects of “face swapping” on snapchat or other photo apps, where you can put someone else’s face on your own and vice versa. Or maybe you participated in the “age yourself” trend, and ran your face through a fake aging app that showed you what you might look like in your ripe old age.
Aside from the fact that these applications of photo-altering technology are designed for amusement, they’re mostly harmless because it’s easy to tell that the images are fake and don’t actually reflect reality.
That’s precisely what makes deepfakes dangerous — the application of deep learning to make false image production creates a world where humans often can’t tell that images or videos are fake at all.