Study finds people believe AI-generated faces are real, especially white ones

AI-generated faces are becoming so realistic that people often can’t detect whether or not they are human.

A new study has revealed that AI-made faces of white people may appear especially realistic, with humans choosing them more often as real faces than actual human faces. And while humans seem unable to tell apart real faces from fake ones, a machine learning system developed by the researchers proved it can complete the task with 94 percent accuracy.

During the experiment, 124 …

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