For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real ...

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tamilla Triantoro, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Pick up an August 2025 ...

The evidence suggests it has already passed what might be called an “aesthetic Turing Test.” AI can generate music, images and movies so convincingly that people struggle to distinguish them from ...

A strange object hurdling through our solar system from interstellar space may, according to one of academia's most controversial astronomers, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are. "It is ...