AI tweaks to photos and videos can alter our memories

Human memories can be distorted by photos and videos edited by artificial intelligence (AI), raising concerns over what might happen if such manipulation becomes an automatic feature of smartphones.

Samantha Chan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her colleagues recruited 200 people – 100 male and 100 female – and showed the same collection of 24 photographs. They then gave them an unconnected task that took 2 minutes to complete.