{"id":323935,"date":"2019-05-07T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/this-site-tests-whether-you-can-spot-ai-generated-faces.php"},"modified":"2019-05-07T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:50:05","slug":"this-site-tests-whether-you-can-spot-ai-generated-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/this-site-tests-whether-you-can-spot-ai-generated-faces.php","title":{"rendered":"This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/05\/site-tests-spot-ai-generated-faces-300x158.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"As deepfakes and AI-generated \" photos become more common we all need tools to discern fact from fiction. a new website came up with tips and test. style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>A\/B Testing<\/h2><p>Deepfakes and other AI-generated images have become commonplace the algorithms that churn them out have become widespread.<\/p><p>On one sugar-coated hand, this means <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence-automating-hollywood-art\">cooler movie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-dreams-trippy-video-games-based-real-life\">video game visual effects<\/a>. On the other hand, it means that bad actors can produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/nov\/12\/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth\">photorealistic propaganda<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/j5kk9d\/deepfakes-were-created-as-a-way-to-own-womens-bodieswe-cant-forget-that-v25n2\">fake porn of real people<\/a>, or&nbsp;other convincing but fake media.<\/p><p>That&rsquo;s why two University of Washington scientists created a website, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whichfaceisreal.com\/about.html\">WhichFaceIsReal.com<\/a>,&rdquo; which is meant to train people to spot the telltale signs that an alleged photo was actually built by an algorithm &mdash; by asking them to guess which of two side-by-side photos a real person and which is an AI-created dupe.<\/p><h2>Facial Recognition<\/h2><p>The website has been up and running since February, shortly after a website called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thispersondoesnotexist.com\/\">ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com<\/a>&rdquo; went live.<\/p><p>That site highlights an AI algorithm built by Nvidia called StyleGAN that can create <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mysterious-site-ai-realistic-horrifying-faces\">almost-perfect portraits<\/a> of human faces out of thin air.<\/p><p>WhichFaceIsReal focuses on the specific errors and glitches in StyleGAN portraits, so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whichfaceisreal.com\/learn.html\">tips and tricks<\/a>&nbsp;&mdash; look for asymmetrical glasses, ears, and jewelry; check whether the background is full of mysterious splotches of color&nbsp;&mdash; don&rsquo;t always generalize to other face-generating AI algorithms.<\/p><p>But if nothing else, WhichFaceIsReal can serve as a reminder that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist\">AI-generated media<\/a> is coming soon, and we&rsquo;re all going to have to be more critical about the images and videos we see every day.<\/p><p><strong>Try It Out: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whichfaceisreal.com\/about.html\">WhichFaceIsReal.com<\/a><\/p><p><strong>More on StyleGAN:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/cat-doesnt-exist-ai\">A New AI Draws Cats, and They&rsquo;re Utterly Grotesque<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/site-tests-spot-ai-generated-faces\/\">This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>Originally posted here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/site-tests-spot-ai-generated-faces\/\" title=\"This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces\">This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A\/B Testing Deepfakes and other AI-generated images have become commonplace the algorithms that churn them out have become widespread. On one sugar-coated hand, this means cooler movie and video game visual effects . On the other hand, it means that bad actors can produce photorealistic propaganda , fake porn of real people , or\u00a0other convincing but fake media.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/this-site-tests-whether-you-can-spot-ai-generated-faces.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}