Artificial Intelligence and Image Manipulation

During the last couple of years, we have seen an explosive growth in both AI technology development and its mainstream use, both good and bad. Given the rise of bad actors leveraging AI to generate fake images to influence people’s perceptions we will be looking at one tool (Hive AI Detector) to potentially combat this growing issue and make identifying these AI generated images quickly and easily.

Fortunately, there are some easy tools that we can employ, one being Hive AI Detector, a Chrome Web Store plugin. Given that the AI images that we are likely to view will be online anyways this becomes an ideal tool for us to use. The installation is the same as any other Chrome app and there is no configuration needed so we are going to skip the setup process.

Figure 1: Hive AI Detector

If you do a simple web search for AI generated photos you will soon find no shortage of various AI tools to fit your needs, whether you are looking for a generative tool to create artistic images, anime images, or very real looking AI images there is a tool out there for....