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Idealista is filling up with images of houses for sale made with AI. And it’s getting harder and harder to identify them.

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AI-generated content has flooded everything and it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish it. The call AI Slop It is everywhere; in social networks, on Spotifyin Wikipedia…even in niches as specific as that of crochet patterns. This avalanche has made us distrust almost any image that we see online, also if you are looking for a house, just because: Idealista has also been filled with AI. house catfish. We typically use the term when a person on the Internet impersonates another person and lies about their appearance. This is what is happening on some real estate sales and rental platforms. Wired already showed some cases of images altered with AIbut it is not a trend exclusive to the United States, on platforms such as Idealista and Fotocasa many ads are also appearing with images modified with AI tools. “So you can see how it would look.” It is the excuse that many owners and real estate agencies use. What they do is enhance the photos using artificial intelligence tools so that the property appears newer than it actually is or how it would look renovated. in the advertisement what this user reports in Xthey have used AI in the image of the pool to show what it would look like if the water was clean and everything was in perfect condition. In the responses to the same post, another user shows this other ad where they have used AI to put grass in the garden of the house, with a pretty bad result by the way. What you ask for vs what you get. Click on the image to open the publication in X. More eye-catching ads. In the description of the ads that users report, they warn that AI has been used to retouch some images, but what they usually do is put the images with AI first to attract the attention of those interested. Once inside the ad, you find reality: the house is falling apart. If it is specified in the description and then they put the real photos, it is not technically a scam, but it is a rather shady strategy that adds another layer of difficulty to the already difficult task of finding a house to buy or rent. Undetectable. The first image generators were not useful for making modifications because images were basically invented, but The arrival of Nano Banana was a turning point since it allows changes to be made while being consistent with the original photo. In September Images appeared on Idealista with the Gemini watermark. We cannot know what they have removed or added, but it could be used to remove moisture or some defects without it being obvious that they have used AI. In this specific case they have left the watermark, but there will be many people who do not know what it means, not to mention that removing it is very simple. There may be many more AI-modified images that are undetectable. Idealista promotes it. In 2023 the platform published an article explaining how to take advantage of AI tools to fix ad images. They showed examples such as organizing rooms, filling swimming pools or furnishing empty rooms. They also launched ‘smart text’ to generate descriptions of the properties, a function similar to those found on other platforms such as Wallapop. Recently published another article where they warned of scams on their platform using fake image generation with AI; a confirmation that it is a fairly widespread and not always transparent practice. Image | Pexelsedited with Nano Banana Pro In Xataka | Alibaba has new Open Source AI to generate videos. The problem is that it is being used to generate pornographic deepfakes

There is a Facebook group available 24 hours a day that even doctors attend. Your mission: identify poisonous mushrooms

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“Hello, I have a human patient with late-onset gastrointestinal symptoms after ingesting these mushrooms.” This is how one of the many messages you receive in ‘Poisons Help; Emergency Identification For Mushrooms & Plants‘, a Facebook group formed by experts in the identification of poisonous plants and mushrooms. They are available 24 hours a day and not only receive consultations from individuals, but also doctors and veterinarians. ID. There are more than 100,000 species of fungi, of which more than a hundred are poisonoussome even mortal. And the same thing happens with many plants. If a person or animal ingests one of these by accident, it is crucial to identify the species to see what steps to take. However, distinguishing these species is not an easy task; in-depth knowledge of botany and mycology is required. In 2018, several experts founded a Facebook group to help identify poisonous species in emergencies. And they are extremely effective. For emergencies only. When you enter the group, a message appears with the rules for posting. The first thing they make clear is that it is a group for emergencies, that is, you can only post if a person or animal has ingested the mushrooms. If someone has a question because they are curious to know details about a specific specimen, there are other groups for that. They also have a warning for trolls: “People come here at scary times for immediate life-saving help, please don’t make jokes, judge or criticize. This is not the place to test your sense of humor or correct others.” Strict rules. For the group to be effective, in active cases no one is allowed to comment other than the administrators themselves or the people who have reported an emergency. It is necessary to provide all possible data: location, amount ingested, time since ingestion, photos of the specimen, weight of the person or animal that ingested it, etc. Doctors and veterinarians. Many of the posts are made directly by professionals who have a patient with problems after ingesting an unknown mushroom or plant. Most are veterinarians, but there are also many cases of doctors with human patients in the same situation. Even there have been cases in which the poison center itself has been the one who recommended going to the group for identification. Recognition. In addition to being a source of consultation for professionals, its work has also been recognized by associations such as the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, which last August invited them to give a talk in one of his conferences. Among the group administrators There are mycologists, botanists and also amateur hobbyists. Cover image | Vladimir Srajber, Pexels In Xataka | Sex is deadly for many males. The octopus has a strategy to survive: inject poison into its partner

What’s true and what’s myth in the “tricks” to identify it

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It is almost a summer ritual: carefully choose a watermelon in the supermarket, get home, leave it, and the time of feeling the tooth feel the disappointment in our palate. Choosing watermelly is not easy And there is no infallible trick. But some, at least, can increase our probability of success while others, They are rather myths. There are two factors that make the choice of watermelon (and Also of the melon) A sensitive task. One of these factors is in your skin, which maintains its firmness and coloration throughout different stages of maturation. Checking the maturation status of a peach can be easy just by tighten and check the firmness of the fruit. In the case of banana we can do it at first sight only appreciating the color. The other factor is in the same process of maturation of these fruits. Both watermelon and melon are non -heated fruits. This means that these fruits only mature while they are connected to their plant, contrary to what happens with the Healthy fruits (such as banana or peach), which continue to mature even while resting in our fruit trees or refrigerators. As we pointed out, this makes the selection of this fruit a delicate process: if we do not succeed in the supermarket, it will not be enough to wait a few days for the watermelon to reach its ideal maturation. And how can we detect the maturation point of the watermelon? Perhaps the main clue we have when knowing if this fruit has reached its maturation point is The “stain” That is formed at the bottom. The yellowish spots They usually indicate A more ripe fruit, while the most pale and whitish indicates that the fruit was collected before reaching maturity. But this It is not the only clue that we can find in the skin of this fruit. Another indication is in the texture: it is convenient to look for melons with flat and rounded surfaces, avoiding those with visible marks. Although making a brand ourselves is an option. Scratching the skin of the fruit can give us another clue, since if when the brand the outermost layer is peeled easily and showing a somewhat whitish interior, we are more likely to be encountering a mature specimen. The maturation of the watermelon The color and texture of the skin It is not the only indication that we can use when identifying the correct watermelon. He Fruit weight (or your density rather) you can also give us a clue about what we will find after opening it. Sandia, such as melons, contain abundant water (they contain more than 90% water). According to experts, the heaviest watermelons with respect to their volume will be the ones that contain the most water and therefore the most juicy. If we are looking for melons in its maturity point, a factor that we must take into account is the date: the watermelon is a seasonal fruit: according to the seasonal fruits calendar of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, we can find watermelons between the months of May and September, the months being the months between June and August the highest level of commercialization (always including the mentioned months). The organization of consumers and users (OCU) the months between June and August (both included). The existence of discrepancies or difference between months with greater or lesser commercialization is in the fact that many factors can alter the fruit maturation process, especially weather and weather factors. What does this mean? That depending on the place of Fruit origin And depending on rainfall and temperatures throughout the year, watermelons can mature with greater or lesser speed, which will alter their flavor. Knowing this type of detail may be beyond the scope of the average consumer, but it can help refine our test and error method. In Xataka | Goodbye Olivares, hello pistacheros: in Spain the record crops are leaving them a fruit until recently residual Image | Crina-miriam pretu

We have been binding to the suitcases to identify them at the airport for years. Your employees warn that it is a bad idea

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I do it. And you may too. Arrives with the billing zone of any airport in the world to verify that we are many, manywho tied tapes, scarves or cords to our bags to differentiate them. A striking colorful color. An old bracelet. A loop with a name. It doesn’t matter. The idea is that we can clearly identify our suitcase of those of the rest of the passengers. Mark it in an unmistakable way (or so we believe) so that according to Asome by the conveyor belt we know that it is ours. It turns out that it is not as a good idea as it seems. Well on paper … But not so much in practice. Although we are many who add tapes to our Trolleys Billed to identify them at a glance, that trick has its weak points. And the most curious thing is that it is the airport employees themselves who They are warning it. Hanging a tape or handkerchief of the ASA may help you locate your suitcase and expedite billing, but workers in charge of managing luggage can be a real complication. One that ends up lengthening the security controls of your suitcase … and affecting your Planning travel. “It can cause problems”. The warning was released recently John, in charge of luggage at Dublin airport, a huge infrastructure for which only last year they paraded near 32 million passengers. With their respective suitcases, of course. In statements To the Irish magazine RSVP Magazinethe airfield employee warns that, at least in certain cases, the signals we use to differentiate our invoiced luggage complicate the controls. To the manual. “The tapes that people bind to their bags to help identify them can cause problems when scanning them in the luggage room,” Clarifies the employee Dublin, and warns: “If the suitcase is not able to scan automatically, it can end in manual processing, which could mean that it does not reach the flight.” Result? A trick that seeks to speed up the trip and avoid losses at the airport would end up becoming the opposite: a big problem. Adds and continues of advice. It is not the only advice left by the employee of the Dublin terminal. So that the passage through the airfields is the most comfortable, fast and quiet as possible RVSP Magazine leaves three other ideas almost as easy to apply as unleashed the ties that we have been able to hang from our Trolleys. The first is in fact very simple: also remove the stickers of old flights. “They can cause confusion with the scanning process,” says John. The second is to place the wheels of the suitcase up to prevent damage while driving it. And the third, somewhat more picturesque but equally crucial: avoid the mazapanes in the travel bags, no matter how fond of these sweets based on almond. The reason? “It has the same density as some explosives, so they will remove the suitcase and call it from the plane.” Travel with luggage … and tricks. John’s is not the first advice on airports and luggage. He is not even the first to expedite the tedious process of waiting for our suitcase to appear for the conveyor belt. The newspaper a year ago The Sun published Two others to get your suitcases and other packages to appear in the luggage collection room: The first It is to place a sticker that identifies them as “fragile”, which will help them to be of the first to be discharged; The second is to make the Chek in and bill Later as possible. The latter, of course, is not suitable for cardiac … and can lead to more than one scare if the traveler does not calculate the times well. Images | Gary Bembridge (Flickr) and Friend Jad (Flickr) In Xataka | The airlines continue to charge for the hand suitcase despite the historical fine and they already warn: they will raise prices *An earlier version of this article was published in June 2024

Google already offers synthid to mark content generated by the as such. Now it will help us identify them

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When Pope Francis I appeared With a colorful white coat of feathers, many probably believed that this image was real. It was not, but that image, Like Donald Trump’s arrestone thing made clear: that we were increasingly difficult to differentiate the images created by an AI of those that are not. How to solve it? Water marks. Among the possible solutions, there was a fairly obvious: identifying the images of AI as generated by AI. That is: every time someone asked Chatgpt an image with Studio Ghibli style oa grok any of Bill Gates with a gunthose models of AI should include certain metadata in the imagne file. Basically it would be like “Put a seal” to these images to be able to identify them in case of doubt. There Synthid enters. There is Several efforts In that sense, and among them is Synthid. This water brand technology was presented in 2023 And a year later They offered as a free tool so that anyone could implement it. Fight against Deepfakes. As those responsible for the company comment, since its launch in 2023 Synthid has placed water marks in more than 10,000 million images, videos, audio files and texts. This can be identified as generated by AI and thus reduce the possibilities of misinformation and erroneous attribution. In addition, they stand out in Google, the results generated by VI 3, Image 4 and Lyria 2 will continue to have Synthid water marks. The AI ​​content detector arrives. The company has announced during the Google I/O 2025 event that Synthid Detector launches, a verification portal to help users identify the contents generated by AI. Its operation is simple: it is enough to raise any content (text, image, video, audio), and the Synthid detector will identify whether the entire file or only one part contains synthid. Preparing for the good and the bad of AI. This type of tool can be especially useful for artists and creators who can thus defend their work as legitimate, but it is above all a useful option that helps us protect ourselves from Deepfakes and misinformation attempts. But. As we mentioned months ago, Synthid is a promising proposal and with many striking characteristics, but it has a problem: that (for the moment) It is not a universal standard. Here Google must not only use it on its platforms, but to reach a consensus with the rest of large technology so that there is a single open and interoperable system that solves the problem of water brands universally. In Xataka | Ilya Sutskever’s new company has a clear objective: to create a “nuclear” security superinteex

The lack of protein represents a risk to our health. These are the key symptoms to identify it

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We live perhaps in him historical context of greater food abundance. It is difficult to find an era in which we have had a greater variety of food at our disposal. This is especially true for meat and fish, two of the main sources of protein. In general, today We consume more proteins than we needbut the general does not always apply and The lack of protein It can also occur in some people, for example cases of certain diets or between people suffering from certain autoimmune diseases. That is why we can ask ourselves, how can we know if we are not consuming enough proteins? Proteins are one of the three macronutrients considered basic for the proper functioning of our body, the other two fats or lipids, and carbohydrates. We associate these nutrients to meatfish, milk products, but are present in one way or another (in their constituent blocks, for example) in a multitude of foods such as legumes or soy. Proteins, although we put them in the same group are not a homogeneous group of compounds: our body has thousands of protein types. Of course, all of them are composed of a series of amino acids chained 20 of these “blocks” are enough to form this myriad of proteins in our body. Our body is able to synthesize 11 of These amino acids But for the other nine, called essential amino acidswe must obtain them from food. For this we need proteins: our digestive system breaks them down in amino acids so that our body can rebuild them according to their need. We call “Complete proteins“To foods containing all essential amino acids. A list of food with complete proteins would include meats such as beef or chicken, fish, eggs, dairy, soy or quinoa. If our body does not consume enough proteins or other amino acid sources, we can fall into the lack of any of these nine essential amino acids, so that our body can lose the ability to generate its own proteins which results in problems such as the Hypooproteinemiathe lack of protein in the blood. Symptoms Before the lack of proteins becomes a problem, we can pay attention to some symptoms that alert us to lack. Health experts from the University of California in Los Angeles They prepared a time ago a list With six indications that can help us detect the lack of protein. In the article they explain that fragility in hair and nails is sometimes the first sign of a protein deficiency. Another sign is in the feeling of weakness and hunger. Hunger usually indicates the lack of food, sometimes it can also indicate a more concrete nutritional lack. A third indication is in our immune system. The lack of protein can limit our body’s ability to defend against external threats so we can find ourselves more sickly due to this lack. The lack of protein can also manifest in changes in humor or difficulties in thinking. This is due to fluctuations in blood sugar levels and the effect of proteins in brain neurotransmitters responsible for regulating our mood. The fifth indication indicated by these experts is muscle weakness. Proteins are indispensable to build and repair muscle mass, without it we can end up losing it. The last of these symptoms is in the Appearance of fractures by stress in the bones. The integrity of these also depends on this type of compounds. Proteins are fundamental to our body and the difficulty in creating new molecules can cause us problems of very diverse type. As usual in nutrition, excess can also be linked to some problems. Some estimates calculate that excessive protein consumption may appear if we take more than two grams daily per kg of body mass. A varied and healthy diet is key to avoiding problems both by excess as defaultin regards to proteins and with regard to any other nutrient. This is especially important for those who, by their own or for health, must eliminate some usual piece of their menu. No food is essential but there are nutrients that they are. In Xataka | Proteic fever has invaded supermarkets. The problem is how they suggest that we take proteins Image | Shayda Torabi

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