Thursday, 23 September 2021

Detecting fake AI-generated faces by looking for irregular pupils

Picture of two images of faces (young girls), one real and one synthetic, with an analysis showing the real faces' has eyes with pupils that are round, and the fake one has pupils that are irregularly shaped

It used to be that if you wanted to create a fake persona online, you swiped a photo from some hapless person's Facebook page. These days, though, fakers can create "synthetic" images — using "general adversarial network" AI to generate fake faces that look awfully real. — Read the rest