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First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] liv@beehaw.org 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don't even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

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