When TikTok videos emerged in 2021 that seemed to show “Tom Cruise” making a coin disappear and enjoying a lollipop, the account name was the only obvious clue that this wasn’t the real deal. The creator of the “deeptomcruise” account on the social media platform was using “deepfake” technology to show a machine-generated version of the famous actor performing magic tricks and having a solo dance-off.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA provides a measure of how far the technology has progressed. The results suggest that real humans can easily fall for machine-generated faces—and even interpret them as more trustworthy than the genuine article. “We found that not only are synthetic faces highly realistic, they are deemed more trustworthy than real faces,” says study co-author Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
The generator began the exercise with random pixels. With feedback from the discriminator, it gradually produced increasingly realistic humanlike faces. Ultimately, the discriminator was unable to distinguish a real face from a fake one. The first group did not do better than a coin toss at telling real faces from fake ones, with an average accuracy of 48.2 percent. The second group failed to show dramatic improvement, receiving only about 59 percent, even with feedback about those participants’ choices. The group rating trustworthiness gave the synthetic faces a slightly higher average rating of 4.82, compared with 4.48 for real people.
The finding adds to concerns about the accessibility of technology that makes it possible for just about anyone to create deceptive still images. “Anyone can create synthetic content without specialized knowledge of Photoshop or CGI,” Nightingale says.
Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)
If you already distrust everything you see and read on the internet, its only going to get worse. Trust only your own experience.
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Been on twitter too long. Read that as dangerous snowflakes.
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nope. actors pretending to be AIs. no rights were EVER shared worldwide, over image generation technology or even the notion of an artificial person and code itself, all of which i copyrighted, worldwide. theartificialpersonlawsuit iinventedcode followthewhiterabbit
To be fair, when composing a face one can choose more trustworthy faces. For balance they should be compared to charming humans.
AI needs competent legal geeks.
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