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Artificial intelligence is now capable of of creating images of human faces that are impossible to differentiate from real photos, new research has shown.

Fast-paced developments in AI over the last four years have enabled computers to generate false images that are impossible to tell apart from reality.

This technology, called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), is behind the wave of digitally manipulated videos and photos called "deep fakes".

The results are that famous people such as actors or politicians can be made to say and do whatever creators want and are difficult to prove as fake.

GAN technology was modified by AI company Nvidia to create a high quality database of thousands of pictures of human beings, all generated by a computer.

Researchers trained their computer with 70,000 photos of real people from Flickr, which included different ages, ethnicity and image backgrounds.

Using these images as a base, the computer was able to learn and segment aspects of different people - such as hair colour, face shape, or skin colour - and generate completely new images.

Researchers have argued that these photos are better than those generated by current GANs.



The technology is also able to detect and reproduce accessories like glasses, sunglasses or hats and create an infinite number of images of completely new people, including children.

As GANs become more sophisticated, senior US and UK politicians have expressed alarm at the threat posed by deep fakes to spread misinformation or stir up conflict.

Scientists are battling to create new algorithms to detect video and photo forgeries as the technology becomes too sophisticated for the human eye.

Rightey wrote:The left and right side of her glasses are different. Slightly different frame shape.

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jawafour wrote:The tech is incredible... but, yeah, also a bit concerning in terms of "fake" images being made.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

jawafour wrote:The tech is incredible... but, yeah, also a bit concerning in terms of "fake" images being made.

Deep Fake images and videos are, very soon I fear, going to tear through the western world - a lot of lives are about to be ruined by it. It's going to cause untold harm to democracy unless some way can be found now, before it's a problem, to prove the falsity of the fake media, trace it to its source etc.

Qikz wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

jawafour wrote:The tech is incredible... but, yeah, also a bit concerning in terms of "fake" images being made.

Deep Fake images and videos are, very soon I fear, going to tear through the western world - a lot of lives are about to be ruined by it. It's going to cause untold harm to democracy unless some way can be found now, before it's a problem, to prove the falsity of the fake media, trace it to its source etc.

ahahahaha democracy.

That doesn't exist. An illusion of it does, but everything concerned with democracy is based on lies and misdirection on the sides of the politicians. Also with broken systems that let someone who didn't get more votes than the other person ultimate power as in what happened in the UK and the US it's a joke.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

jawafour wrote:The tech is incredible... but, yeah, also a bit concerning in terms of "fake" images being made.

Deep Fake images and videos are, very soon I fear, going to tear through the western world - a lot of lives are about to be ruined by it. It's going to cause untold harm to democracy unless some way can be found now, before it's a problem, to prove the falsity of the fake media, trace it to its source etc.

ahahahaha democracy.

That doesn't exist. An illusion of it does, but everything concerned with democracy is based on lies and misdirection on the sides of the politicians. Also with broken systems that let someone who didn't get more votes than the other person ultimate power as in what happened in the UK and the US it's a joke.

Deep fakes could permit a one party dictatorship, which the people don't even know exists because all they're being fed by the news media will be images of people who don't exist.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

jawafour wrote:The tech is incredible... but, yeah, also a bit concerning in terms of "fake" images being made.

Deep Fake images and videos are, very soon I fear, going to tear through the western world - a lot of lives are about to be ruined by it. It's going to cause untold harm to democracy unless some way can be found now, before it's a problem, to prove the falsity of the fake media, trace it to its source etc.

ahahahaha democracy.

That doesn't exist. An illusion of it does, but everything concerned with democracy is based on lies and misdirection on the sides of the politicians. Also with broken systems that let someone who didn't get more votes than the other person ultimate power as in what happened in the UK and the US it's a joke.

Deep fakes could permit a one party dictatorship, which the people don't even know exists because all they're being fed by the news media will be images of people who don't exist.

Ironhide wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:Deep fakes could permit a one party dictatorship, which the people don't even know exists because all they're being fed by the news media will be images of people who don't exist.

The future is going to be an amazing but terrifying and confusing world.

Moggy wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Qikz wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:

jawafour wrote:The tech is incredible... but, yeah, also a bit concerning in terms of "fake" images being made.

Deep Fake images and videos are, very soon I fear, going to tear through the western world - a lot of lives are about to be ruined by it. It's going to cause untold harm to democracy unless some way can be found now, before it's a problem, to prove the falsity of the fake media, trace it to its source etc.

ahahahaha democracy.

That doesn't exist. An illusion of it does, but everything concerned with democracy is based on lies and misdirection on the sides of the politicians. Also with broken systems that let someone who didn't get more votes than the other person ultimate power as in what happened in the UK and the US it's a joke.

Deep fakes could permit a one party dictatorship, which the people don't even know exists because all they're being fed by the news media will be images of people who don't exist.

We’ll know they are fake when they start displaying some competence.

Rightey wrote:I for one think we should just give up on democracy and allow ourselves to be ruled by ants...

Rightey wrote:You can make it generate one for you here...

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Ironhide wrote:

Rightey wrote:You can make it generate one for you here...

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

strawberry float, some of them are recognisably fake but most of them could definitely be real people.

A few of them look like they'd be great fake profile pics on dating sites.

Lagamorph wrote:There is now an anime waifu version,

http://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html