Category: Beards

AI is getting good. Perhaps too good.

I recently ran across an Instagram account that at first blush looked like a great collection of hot guys. The more I got into it, however, the more I started doubting the images’ authenticity. They were perfect…with one tell. The tattoos on what were otherwise identical models were radically different from image to image—in some cases absent altogether.

Then I went back to the main account and read the description.

But seriously, if I hadn’t noticed the ink, I would’ve blithly continued believing the images were real.

The gentleman in the image above, while not from that particular account, gives me pause as well.

How can we even trust what we see as real/