The following excerpt is from Steve Little’s blog post dated November 7, 2025.
“As I noted in my June blog post: ‘The man on the left is my grandfather; the man on the right is not.’
“The AI didn’t repair or “restore” the original. It learned from the “seed” image and generated a new, convincing-but-fake person. This is the core problem: these new tools (technically “auto-regressive” image-generating models, an advance over the earlier “diffusion” models such as DALL-E) create plausible fabrications that can permanently corrupt our historical record.”
If you look closely, you can see that the teeth are not the same. And, it appears that the eyes have swapped positions. AI’s version is a deepfake. Just a word of caution to the wise.
You can read Steve’s entire blog post here to learn more.
Submitted by Robin McCarthy
