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How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

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Scary to think where this will be in 10 years. Perhaps even video evidence will be hard to believe any more. How do you convict someone if this technology is mature?

There's a whole radiolab series about this called the Future of Fake News http://futureoffakenews.com/

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Good article and great tech. However, I don't know if I believe the results are as good as they claim. Many of the pictures look a bit off to me, like they all have dead eyes. Maybe celebrities generally look like that anyway, so it is being true to form. :)

In particular, I think this guy is missing a pretty significant part of his head: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/12/26/ai-faces/8e...

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One application I imagine for this is a future of game development similar to the movie inception where an "architect" designs the layout and setting and then all the details are filled in ad hoc by the computers "imagination". Today its faces that feel familiar but aren't real. Tomorrow its whole cities that feel familiar but aren't real. The cities are filled with people you swear you've seen before. Perhaps the de…

"semantic image manipulation" is getting better and better :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhH2Cc4thJw

Re: How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

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>> “QUESTION: Look at the two photos below and see if you can figure out which person is real.”

>> “ANSWER: Sorry! This was a trick question. Both images were generated by computers.”

Not really a trick question when even if you know they’re both fake that the only way to be right (confirm you are right) is to be wrong.

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post #12

Good article and great tech. However, I don't know if I believe the results are as good as they claim. Many of the pictures look a bit off to me, like they all have dead eyes. Maybe celebrities generally look like that anyway, so it is being true to form. :) In particular, I think this guy is missing a pretty significant part of his head: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2017/12/26/ai-faces/8e...

In most cases hair gave it away for me, especially at the contours. The picture you linked is an extreme example.

However, give it to a good Photoshop artist, like most celebrity pictures are, and I'm sure these issues will be fixed in no time.

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post #5

Scary to think where this will be in 10 years. Perhaps even video evidence will be hard to believe any more. How do you convict someone if this technology is mature?

And or how do you prove someone's innocence if you can generate a believable, fake, crime video. Supporting counter evidence will become that much more important.

There's going to need to be some kind of blockchain-style tech that allows the source and veracity of video to be determined.

Re: How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

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>> “QUESTION: Look at the two photos below and see if you can figure out which person is real.” >> “ANSWER: Sorry! This was a trick question. Both images were generated by computers.” Not really a trick question when even if you know they’re both fake that the only way to be right (confirm you are right) is to be wrong.

Yeah, I thought both looked a tiny bit off. I think it has to do with the reflection in the eyes which is a tiny bit inconsistent, among other things.

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post #5

Scary to think where this will be in 10 years. Perhaps even video evidence will be hard to believe any more. How do you convict someone if this technology is mature?

And or how do you prove someone's innocence if you can generate a believable, fake, crime video. Supporting counter evidence will become that much more important.

You might be able to use this same technology to counteract this from happening.

If you generate content you would have a base to test an AI to spot actual fake content. You could use video's and pictures like these to test a learning AI to spot discrepancies, then report findings in detail.

Makes me wonder if there is a future in forensics for this type of technology.

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post #5

Scary to think where this will be in 10 years. Perhaps even video evidence will be hard to believe any more. How do you convict someone if this technology is mature?

Imagine how this could be misused to start wars-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvvHwFSZHs

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