fake photos
Digitally altered pictures
Fake photos are images that have been altered, manipulated, or entirely fabricated to misrepresent reality.
The term covers everything from airbrushed magazine covers to AI-generated deepfakes.
Fake photos may be created for humor, propaganda, fraud, or misinformation: The campaign spread fake photos of the candidate.
The rise of digital tools has made detecting fake photos increasingly difficult.
- photoshopDigitally manipulate images
- doctoredDeceptively altered
- manipulatedControlled through cunning
- airbrushedEdited for artificial perfection
- retouchedEdited for improvement
before and after · deepfake · filters · staged · reality TV · altered · hoax · forgery · misleading · fabricated · synthetic · CGI · catfish · deceptive · composited · spliced · fraudulent · too good to be true
- hoaxesalien autopsy, moon landing hoax, War of the Worlds, forgeries, deepfakes
- Flat Earthfirmament, ice wall, disc, disk, edge