Instagram photographer admits his portraits are all AI-generated

An Instagram photographer who raked in thousands of followers thanks to his stunning portraits has admitted that they are actually fake. The apparent'photos' were created by Midjourney - a software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images - and touched up on Photoshop. Jos Avery, from the US, even gave each figure a name, geotag and moving story that he added in the image captions, but these are marked as fictional. The photorealistic, black-and-white images saw his Instagram account, @averyseasonart, gain nearly 29,000 followers since he first posted in October. However, after admitting the images were AI generated, he has received some backlash from followers who felt tricked.