A handful of people saw a bear walking around Nags Head. Thousands of people saw the pictures. They were almost too good to be true, because they WERE too good to be true.
Pretty cool! Also cool that someone took a photo of the same bear at the Dare County Airport a few days later. When I saw that I thought that the bear was headed back to Manns Harbor and couldn't wait to get home.
This article encapsulates what's coming. Imagine this story, but with EVERY major news event for the foreseeable future. A kernel of truth, but then everything that comes after is suspect. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy solution, but everyone needs to be aware it's coming.
People like Lex have the tech and the desire for attention. To them this is just a new art form with social media and AI as their medium. And they are well within their rights to do so. Should it be labeled as fake, probably, but that requires a responsible party / system to do so. And as we've seen without economic incentive to do so, it won't happen.
So we'll need to prepare ourselves (journalists especially) to fact-check or start from a place of skepticism.
W. Spider is a dig at a local photographer with those same initials. W.S. posted his own take on the fake photos through his Facebook business page. Alex took the challenge.
I look forward to the photo of Trump and Hunter Biden walking hand-in-hand into the sunset. Joined together by leg irons... I feel Mr. Lex has a very bright future ahead of him.
And all this started because Brandi Justice and Stacey Walker were taking their lunch break and saw the bear on the causeway! Great job ladies!!!
Pretty cool! Also cool that someone took a photo of the same bear at the Dare County Airport a few days later. When I saw that I thought that the bear was headed back to Manns Harbor and couldn't wait to get home.
This article encapsulates what's coming. Imagine this story, but with EVERY major news event for the foreseeable future. A kernel of truth, but then everything that comes after is suspect. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy solution, but everyone needs to be aware it's coming.
People like Lex have the tech and the desire for attention. To them this is just a new art form with social media and AI as their medium. And they are well within their rights to do so. Should it be labeled as fake, probably, but that requires a responsible party / system to do so. And as we've seen without economic incentive to do so, it won't happen.
So we'll need to prepare ourselves (journalists especially) to fact-check or start from a place of skepticism.
Great article. My biggest issues with Alex Lex's created images and social media campaigns:
1. He sometimes uses other people's photos without permission.
2. He doesn't correct people when they comment on his images thinking they're real.
3. He blocks anyone who calls them fake.
4. He doesn't tell his customers on Etsy that the images he's selling are digitally created.
5. Him along with others that digitally create images and passes them off as photography dilutes real photographer's work.
I wonder if he would have time to do Richard Petty with a duck. 😜
W. Spider is a dig at a local photographer with those same initials. W.S. posted his own take on the fake photos through his Facebook business page. Alex took the challenge.
Yeah, from some conversations I've had, a few local photographers aren't happy with him.
I look forward to the photo of Trump and Hunter Biden walking hand-in-hand into the sunset. Joined together by leg irons... I feel Mr. Lex has a very bright future ahead of him.