Artificial intelligence could end the hunt for the Loch Ness monster.
AI could end the hunt for the Loch Ness monster
Nessie hunter Steve Feltham has spent three decades studying images taken by people who claim to have spotted the legendary Scottish beast.
A significant part of his job is filtering out hoaxes from real sightings but increasingly realistic AI images mean Feltham fears that they will soon be impossible to differentiate.
He said: "I do see a possible end to my ability to identify what's in a picture as a mundane false alarm or something unexplainable. AI at the moment makes very good pictures but you can still tell it's an AI image."
Feltham added: "This is the dawn of flight for that technology, they are going to get better and better and I am not going to be able to tell whether it's the real thing or AI."