AI Generated Faces Are More Trustworthy Than Real Faces Say Researchers Who Warn of "Deep Fakes"

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EJ Gibney
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This article makes two things abundantly clear:

1. The public needs better resources for identifying artificially generated images.

2. StyleGAN images need to be watermarked.

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AI Generated Faces Are More Trustworthy Than Real Faces Say Researchers Who Warn of “Deep Fakes” -...
People have trouble distinguishing between real people's faces and AI StyleGAN2 synthesized faces. People also consider AI-generated faces to be more trustworthy.
10:51 AM · Feb 17, 2022

https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-generated-faces-trust-20071/


People cannot distinguish between a face generated by Artificial Intelligence – using StyleGAN2- and a real face say researchers, who are calling for safeguards to prevent “deep fakes”.

AI-synthesized text, audio, image, and video have already been used for so-called “revenge porn”, fraud and propaganda.

Dr Sophie Nightingale from Lancaster University and Professor Hany Farid from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted experiments in which participants were asked to distinguish state of the art StyleGAN2 synthesized faces from real faces and what level of trust the faces evoked.

The results revealed that synthetically generated faces are not only highly photo realistic, but nearly indistinguishable from real faces and are even judged to be more trustworthy.

“Our evaluation of the photo realism of AI-synthesized faces indicates that synthesis engines have passed through the uncanny valley and are capable of creating faces that are indistinguishable – and more trustworthy – than real faces.”

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[Budi]

1. What happens when they tell me my own face doesn't match their face of me.

What then?
What the heck do I do?
Its my fking face!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Will we all be NFTs then?

[Budi]

3. What'll we all look like when the hacker challenge thrown down ends?

This could be either be really bad or really hillarious.

We look like our pets?
TikTokers choice?
Minecraft charachters?
A thumb with ink pen drawn eyes, nose & mouth?

[CaptainTruth]

4. The march of technology. It won't stop. Look at CGI in movies & TV shows...

...a lot of folks can't tell the difference between a real physical set & a high-quality CGI set.

This specific issue, the development of faces that are "more trustworthy," WILL be used by the right-wing propaganda machine to make their messaging more effective, I guarantee it.

Bookmark this & revisit when it happens.