Much of the research and discourse on risks from artificial intelligence (AI) image generators, such as DALL-E and Midjourney, has centered around whether they could be used to inject false information into political discourse. We show that spammers and scammers - seemingly motivated by profit or clout, not ideology - are already using AI-generated images to gain significant traction on Facebook. At times, the Facebook Feed is recommending unlabeled AI-generated images to users who neither follow the Pages posting the images nor realize that the images are AI-generated, highlighting the need for improved transparency and provenance standards as AI models proliferate.

翻译：摘要：关于DALL-E和Midjourney等人工智能（AI）图像生成器风险的研究与讨论，大多集中于它们是否会被用来向政治话语中注入虚假信息。我们表明，垃圾邮件发送者和欺诈者——其动机似乎是追求利润或影响力，而非意识形态——已在利用AI生成图像在Facebook上获取显著关注。有时，Facebook推荐流会向未关注发布图像页面的用户推荐未标注的AI生成图像，且用户并未意识到这些图像是由AI生成的。这凸显了随着AI模型普及，提升透明度与溯源标准的必要性。