From SF Standard
Is that moon photo real? How to spot Artemis II AI slop
By Emily Dreyfuss
The Artemis II mission has put the moon back in the news, with stunning images of our satellite beamed back to Earth. The photos are awe-inducing.
But are they real? After all, the moon has been a bugaboo of conspiracy theorists since the “alleged” moon landing of 1969; add in the internet and AI, and we are awash in fake moonslop.
So The Standard called up Hany Farid, one of the world’s leading image-verification experts. A UC Berkeley professor and cofounder of the image-verification company GetReal, Farid has spent more than a decade pioneering image verification in an increasingly digitized world.
Here, he tells us how to know if you’re really looking at the moon.
The Artemis mission is getting everyone excited about the moon again. But in my work chat, someone shared an insane and amazing image they said was from the Artemis space mission. Then another colleague said it was fake. I thought they were making a meta conspiracy joke about the moon landing hoax theories, but everyone said it was really fake...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley
