Image of pope with fashion coat was made by Artificial Intelligence; understand

The publication of a “photograph” of Pope Francis with a stylish coat, of the “puffer” type, or as many prefer to say in Brazil as fashion “Faria Limer”, confused social network users. Many came to believe at first that the pontiff had actually used the fashion item.

But the image, which even generated indignation from the faithful, was made using Artificial Intelligence (AI). It was first published on Reddit, a free online forum that allows the creation of publications and discussions on various subjects. The image was posted on the forum in an AI thread.

Pope Francis divides opinions among Christians after appearing with a fashionable look.
What did you think? pic.twitter.com/UH1fINgWlI

— Pedro Machado 🇺🇸 (@pedromachadobr) March 25, 2023

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence has become commonplace in everyday life in recent years. They are facial recognition systems, tools capable of writing, such as the new and powerful ChatGPT, which has gone viral recently with the ability to write very good essays in seconds, among other platforms.

AI is briefly the ability of tools, machines, robots, systems and the like to perform complex tasks associated with intelligent beings.

Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, today Meta, a name that comes from Metaverso defined that AI tools can help users of their applications to express themselves and “discover new content”, but he also said they can be used to increase the efficiency of companies.

Meta and its predecessor Facebook have been involved in AI research for years. Since the end of last year, the frenzy around AI has increased when Microsoft-backed OpenAI publicly released ChatGPT.

The technology quickly went viral for its ability to generate compelling, human-like responses to user prompts, and then kicked off an apparent AI arms race among tech companies.

(Posted by Carolina Farias)