When AI Gets Too Real: A Personal Wake-Up Call
Image created using AI A couple of days back, I was having a typical evening at home. I was doing something around the house while my mom was sitting on the sofa, scrolling through Facebook on her phone. Suddenly, she called me over with genuine surprise in her voice: "Look, this Telugu actor gave birth to twins!" I was confused. "What?" I asked, moving closer to see what she was talking about. She showed me a picture that stopped me in my tracks. There was this well-known actor couple, both popular faces in Telugu cinema, proudly holding twin babies. The image looked absolutely perfect—natural lighting, genuine smiles, the kind of tender moment you'd expect from new parents. The only problem? I knew for a fact that this couple hadn't had any children. But that AI-generated image was so convincingly real that even my mom was fooled for a moment. This wasn't my first encounter with AI's eerily realistic creations. Recently, I watched the Tamil mov...
