This is not a photo but AI can pretend it is as it's now learnt to draw human hands

As fake as they come! This image was generated by Midjourney V5. It shows something that never happened.

Hard to believe but all those clever artificial intelligence (AI) image generators were once stumped by human five-fingered hands.

No longer.

Midjourney AI v5 has cracked that challenge, apparently, ushering in a new world, a universe littered with fake photos.

@Semafor reported the news recently, alongside a photo of Joe Biden and Donald Trump laughing on the golf course together. It’s a golden day. What could possibly be wrong?

All of it. It’s a fake photo and Semafor helpfully helps us navigate to the LinkedIn account of Scot Pansing, a creative technologist, who specialises in “AI Prompt Generation” and formerly worked at Google, YouTube, Disney and Capitol Records.

Mr Pansing explains the implications of what we’re seeing when we look at that image of Mr Biden and Mr Trump:

“These are not photographs; they were generated by Midjourney v5. The rate of improvement in these tools is ast…