"With AI faces now almost impossible to distinguish from real ones, this misplaced confidence could make people more vulnerable to scammers and fraudsters, they warned. While it used to be easy to spot fake faces by looking for obvious visual mistakes - such as distorted teeth, glasses that merged into faces and ears that didn't quite attach properly - it's becoming much harder."
"If you think you can spot any digital trickery, take the quiz below to see how well you distinguish real and AI-generated faces. 'Ironically, the most advanced AI faces aren't given away by what's wrong with them, but by what's too right,' Dr Amy Dawel said. 'Rather than obvious glitches, they tend to be unusually average - highly symmetrical, well-proportioned and statistically typical.'"
"As part of their study, the researchers recruited 125 participants to complete an online test in which they were shown a series of faces and asked to judge whether each image was real or made by AI. Participants included 89 'normal' people and 35 people with exceptional face-recognition ability, known as 'super recognisers'. Their analysis revealed that normal people performed only slightly better than chance. And while super-recognisers performed better than other participants, it was only by a 'slim margin.'"
People show misplaced confidence about detecting AI-generated faces while actual performance is only marginally above chance. AI-generated faces have become harder to detect because they often lack obvious glitches and instead appear unusually average, highly symmetrical, well-proportioned and statistically typical. Test participants included typical observers and 'super recognisers' with exceptional face-recognition ability; super-recognisers performed better but only by a slim margin. The near-indistinguishability of advanced AI faces raises vulnerability to scammers and fraudsters who could exploit confidence in visual detection.
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