From AFP Fact Check
Social media users share AI-generated images of ‘pregnant Philippine girl’
By Lucille Sodipe
Three photos showing a pregnant girl in different poses were shared in a Facebook post on December 22.
“Youngest pregnant girl, nine years old only. This is worrisome,” the Tagalog-language post read. “Girls are getting pregnant at a younger age, so my advice to parents is to watch your children closely.”
Text overlaid on one of the pictures claims the girl is from General Santos, a city in the southern Philippines...
Hany Farid, a media forensics expert at the University of California-Berkeley, also said there are “many implausible inconsistencies” in the photos, including the details in the girl’s clothing, shoes and objects in the background (archived link).
“I am confident these are AI-generated images,” he told AFP on December 27, adding the inconsistencies are “telltale signs” of AI...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
