Imagine yourself standing in the middle of a demonstration. Voices are loud, posters colourful, the atmosphere peaceful. Just a few clicks – and the same scene suddenly looks angry, threatening, aggressive. Both images look credible.
Which one would you print in a newspaper?
A picture can your life
Change even if
it never existed.
The picture on the left shows the peaceful women's strike in Switzerland — taken by Basil Stücheli mithilfe von KI manipuliert: Gesichter ausgetauscht, Mimik verzerrt, Gesten verändert.
The right image was manipulated by Basil Stücheli using AI: faces replaced, expressions distorted, gestures altered.
This is how a peaceful crowd becomes a seemingly aggressive mob.
A single photo can completely change the tone of a news story.
Those who only see the manipulated image might believe the protest was violent – with real consequences for public opinion, politics, and legal decisions.
In the past, image editing took hours – today, just a few clicks are enough.
The more fakes circulate, the more we doubt real images and lose trust in media and facts.
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Emotional posts receive on average over 50% more likes than neutral ones.
(Source: Alhabash et al., 2021)
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Manipulated photos are often perceived as real – the detection success rate is only around 60%.
(Source: Nightingale et al., 2017)
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AI tools can realistically alter facial expressions, body posture, and even lighting conditions.
(Source: Medin et al., 2021 — MOST-GAN)
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Once shared, fake images are nearly impossible to fully retract.
(Source: EU DisInfoLab, 2023)
Use reverse image search (Google Lens, TinEye, InVID) to verify the source.
Pay attention to details: unnatural shadows, illogical proportions, blurred faces in the background.
Check multiple sources before sharing an image.
Question it: “Too good to be true?”, “Why am I seeing this image right now?”, “What is it trying to tell me?”
Take a pause instead of doomscrolling.
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