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Fake food created by AI looks tastier than real dishes, scientists say – so, can you tell which of these are actual meals?

Some ultra-processed foods are packed with artificial colours and flavourings.  But scientists have found that food which is 100 per cent artificial looks even tastier than the real deal. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Naples Federico II discovered that people rate AI-generated food images are more appetising. And, as AI

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Scientists say fake faces created by AI look MORE real than human faces – so, can you tell which of these are actual people?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now so sophisticated that we can’t tell the difference between fake faces and snaps of real people, a new study warns.  In experiments with US citizens, more people thought AI-generated faces were human than the faces of real people. Experts are concerned that ‘hyper-realistic’ imagery could be fueling misinformation and identity theft

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Ratio of budget balance to GDP: actual and cyclically adjusted

Today from CBO: Picture 1: Federal budget balance to GDP (blue), federal budget balance without automatic stabilizers to potential GDP (yellow). Peak-to-trough dates as determined by the NBER are in grey. Orange shading denotes the Trump administration. Source: BEA, CBO (February; June), and the author’s calculations. In the last completed quarter before the Trump administration,

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