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Getting Tricked by Early AI

It came through on the family WhatsApp group.  It was a picture of Grace, my cousin Steve's one year-old daughter.  She's sitting on a park bench wearing a pink outfit with cherry trees in full bloom behind her.  The picture was an explosion of pink.  Pink everywhere.  Pink everything.  It radiated cuteness in its pinkness.  Great picture, I said. Amazing blossom!  I looked at it for a few seconds longer.  The trees, I thought.  The trees look suspicious.  Do cherry trees that vibrant exist in Britain? Did Steve and Jo take Grace to Kyoto without telling us?  Two minutes later, I messaged the group again.  Is the background AI? It looks like it, Mum replied.    Nothing gets past me, I thought.  My analogue brain worked out how they did it.  I had it sussed.  AI background, real bench and they scattered fake pink fabric petals on the bench to make the background look more realistic.  Clever....