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The Ineptitude of Artificial Intelligence in Spelling Accuracy

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Why is AI so bad at spelling? But put an AI up against some middle schoolers at the spelling bee, and it’ll get knocked out faster than you can say diffusion. The underlying technology behind image and text generators are different, yet both kinds of models have similar struggles with details like spelling. But, Guzdial says, if we look close enough, it’s not just fingers and spelling that AI gets wrong. Though these AI models are improving at an alarming rate, these tools are still bound to encounter issues like this, which limits the capacity of the technology.

“The Premonition of Kate Middleton’s Photo Retouching Controversy”

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After frenzied speculation that a recent photo of Kate Middleton and her children was AI generated, the Duchess of Cambridge herself had to address the controversy. It’s an appropriate amount of hands — eight hands for four people — but they all look a bit off. So when official Royal Family accounts published the suspicious-looking photo of Kate and her children, the internet had a field day. Even British celebrities like Piers Morgan have weighed in, raising the question of why the Royal Family won’t quash the conspiracy theories by just releasing the unedited photo. It’s a good thing that the public was so skeptical about Middleton’s sketchy photo, since she admitted that it was edited.