People Are Pretty Bad At Spotting Whether An Image Is Fake

[ABX]

As you can tell by half the stuff you see flying around on social media, people are really bad at spotting if an image is “Photoshopped” and digitally altered.

Take, for example, an image that went viral earlier this month of politicians at the G20 summit that appeared to show Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, and Turkish President Erdogan all flocking around Vladimir Putin. In reality, the chair they are gathered around was empty and Putin was digitally edited in allegedly by the Russian media (image below)......




http://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-are-pretty-bad-at-spotting-whether-an-image-is-fake/all/

[truth_seeker]

Is this the first time this was ever done? Or the first time it was caught?

Do American media resources do this, too?

I am NOT a graphics guy, but I wave watched one guy work, and it is pretty convincing.

Nothing political. Simply stuff like taking telephone lines, out of real estate photos. Putting blue sky and clouds, on a grey day real estate photo.

[Wingnut]

[Ghost Bear]

[Elderberry]

[Oceander]

That's a nice photoshop.  One tyro error though.  The back of the chair just above Putin's left shoulder (right hand side of the image), is still covered by the jacket of the guy who is standing next to the chair in the right hand side of the image.  If that were a true image, his head would be occupying the same physical space occupied by Putin's head, which cannot be.  Perhaps he left it as a telltale?

[Oceander]

Anyone recall the Obama backwards pledge?  That's my little baby. 

[Smokin Joe]

Is this the first time this was ever done? Or the first time it was caught?

Do American media resources do this, too?

I am NOT a graphics guy, but I wave watched one guy work, and it is pretty convincing.

Nothing political. Simply stuff like taking telephone lines, out of real estate photos. Putting blue sky and clouds, on a grey day real estate photo.

Naw, that stuff is all conspiracy theory, no one would ever photoshop anything....
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union

But that was the USSR, and before photoshop...(The KGB would have sold their mothers for photoshop)

Okay, but think it wouldn't happen here? 
Really?



Now consider any movie with CGI, is just photoshop on a grand scale for the big screen, and it has been getting better and better.

[Fishrrman]

Remember the line from King Kong, after the beast has been brought back to New York, and Carl Denham walks out before the audience and says:

"But ladies and gentlemen, seeing IS believing…"

It was, once. But no more.

I realized that photography as a record of history was all over when I first saw this: