Those Viral Photos of Elon and Zuck Are AI. But Google Launched a New Way to Check for Fakes

Those Viral Photos of Elon and Zuck Are AI. But Google Launched a New Way to Check for Fakes

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Those Viral Photos of Elon and Zuck Are AI. But Google Launched a New Way to Check for Fakes

Photos appearing to show Elon Musk and several other Big Tech CEOs have gone viral in the past week on X and Bluesky. The mundane environments, including humble apartments and McDonald’s parking lots, should have given everyone a hint that they’re fake. But there’s a new way for the average person to check for themselves whether the images were made with AI. And it’s actually really useful. Right off the bat, it should be said that the vast majo…