Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Frontier Image Generation Models, Synthetic Visual Evidence, and Real-World Risk

arXiv:2604.24197v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier image generation has moved from artistic synthesis toward synthetic visual evidence. Systems such as GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana 2 Lite, Grok Imagine Image Quality, Qwen Image 2.0 Pro, and Seedream 5.0 Lite combine photorealistic rendering, readable typography, reference consistency, editing control, and in several cases reasoning or search-grounded image construction. These capabilities create large benefits for design, education, accessibility, and communication, yet they also weaken one of societ

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