The rise of generative artificial intelligence has launched us into a new age. Machines now perform tasks that once belonged only to human minds. Using pretrained models and transformers, they create ...

It may not have a soul, but AI has learned the mathematical recipe for the sights and sounds that most people find moving. Jacob Wackerhausen/iStock via Getty Images Plus Pick up an August 2025 issue ...

For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real person; it’s a “person” created from scratch, a digital composite of data points, engineered to appear as a beautiful ...

Moltbook’s sudden breakout felt like a small sci‑fi event. Overnight, a Reddit‑like forum appeared where the posters weren’t humans, but AI agents. The feed quickly filled with the kinds of things ...

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For decades, fashion images have been retouched. But this isn’t airbrushing a real ...