By Milagros Costabel
Publication Date: 2026-01-27 10:00:00
Getty Images“But this can also be used negatively, because maybe you don’t like something about yourself and you’re telling the AI that you’re not sure about a feature of your body. Maybe your hair is a little messy and you mention it in your request. While it’s telling you, ‘Oh, it’s beautiful,’ it could also be telling you, ‘You’re right, here’s how to change it,'” Edwards adds.
But when technology acts as our eyes, it risks describing something that doesn’t exist at all. Hallucinations – where AI models pass off inaccurate or false information as true – are one of the technology’s biggest problems. “At first the descriptions were very good, but we noticed that many of them were inaccurate and changed important details or made up information when what was in the picture was not enough,” explains Mahadevan. “But the technology is…
