RIP photography: AI-made images now more popular than real ones


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Research suggests fake, AI-generated pictures are already outpeforming real pictures on stock photography marketplaces. — Photo: Christin Klose/dpa

SAN JOSE: In news no snapper or shutterbug wants to hear, Google and Scandinavian publisher Bonnier News have published research showing that artificial intelligence-generated images are proving more popular than real photographs.

After teaming up to develop a product called BonsAI, Bonnier and the Google News Initiative found in tests that the imagery it churns out usually gets higher click-through rates (CTR) than photos.

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