Among the images that are circulating about the Los Angeles fires there are several created with artificial intelligence. They are images artfully created to generate reactions on social media. It is not clear what software was used but it is now very difficult to distinguish these images from reality.
These days Los Angeles is overwhelmed by fires. They burn residential neighborhoods and burn the villas of movie stars and entrepreneurs. It’s one of the worst fires seen in California and was born from a long tangle of causes. Here we also explained the role of climate change. However, among the images that are describing the disaster there are also shots created with artificial intelligence.
It happened again, and we’ll have to get used to it for now. The amount of images that pass in front of our screens in these moments is enormous. There are those of photographers, those published in newspapers and those spread on social media by those who are on site. We had already seen this with Hurricane Milton.
Alongside the real images of the hurricane, those created specifically by artificial intelligence also arrived. They are shots built specifically for generate more reactionsoften featuring children or animals. In the case of the Los Angeles fires, the target to choose was easy. It was enough to ask the artificial intelligence to create an image of one of its burning symbols: the Hollywood sign.
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Fact-checking the burning Hollywood sign
Jeff Zarrinnampresident of the Hollywood Sign Trust, explained to Reuters that the sign made up of huge white letters is safe. The park where it is located, Griffith Park, has been closed. The photos taken in recent days of the writing show the entire area around the white letters perfectly intact.
It is not clear how the image was created, also because there are various ones on social media. The one you see at the head of this article was created with Grok, the artificial intelligence launched by Elon Musk. As you can see, the new models are now able to overcome even the old problems related to letters present in the image.
