Stefan Mileschin

Political fall out

Scientific American reports on a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA on the effectiveness of deep fakes.

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, but they are also more trustworthy than real faces", says study co-author Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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 group rating trustworthiness gave the synthetic faces a slightly higher average rating of 4.82, compared with 4.48 for real people.

Study co-author Sophie Nightingale Study said participants did overwhelmingly identify some of the fakes as fake.

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