MIT Study: AI-Edited Photos Double False Memories and Boost Confidence

MIT Study: AI-Edited Photos Double False Memories and Boost Confidence

A CHI 2025 experiment from the MIT Media Lab is drawing fresh attention for an uncomfortable finding: people who view AI-edited images or AI-generated videos are markedly more likely to misremember what they originally saw—and more confident that their false recollections are correct. The study, co-authored by memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus of the University of … Read more