When our overt, covert and cultural power lists appear on afr.com towards the end of the week, you’ll notice some rather bizarre images of our power listers.
These have all been generated through AI . At times, creating this issue felt like peering into an alternative universe where hundreds of high-quality fake photos can be generated in seconds., especially in today’s image-led culture, in which so much information is consumed quickly on social media. Perhaps this issue, in a small way, will spur on business leaders, cultural leaders and politicians to think more urgently about those risks, and what to do about them.
When it comes to our starting point – whether data can create a more scientific Power list – our writers’ ramblings through the data-field have given me comfort that human ingenuity is still the killer app. The more valuable data is, the more likely it is hoarded rather than made public. The most immaculate power plays often leave no fingerprints. When faced with zettabytes of data, it’s hard to beat the clarity gained from talking to the top.
As there is too in photography. To the relief of our photographers, the AI images of our Power listers are not perfect. That said, AI is rapidly getting better. Might these fake images have been harder to spot if we tried this all again in a year’s time?
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