A Photographer Embraces the Alien Logic of A.I.

The Pope is wearing Balenciaga. Donald Trump is resisting arrest. But, of course, none of these things are real. As A.I. technology advances at a queasy speed, all manner of artificially generated images are flooding the Internet, adding sludge to an already super-saturated visual soup. They fool credulous social-media users and threaten to put people out of work.