Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
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Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#2I wonder why the article has the title '20170629-the-hidden-signs-that-can...' in the url. That date would suggest it's from the 29th of june 2017 (while the date below the headlines says 2020), way before the current breakthroughs of deep fakes.
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#3I wonder why the article has the title '20170629-the-hidden-signs-that-can...' in the url. That date would suggest it's from the 29th of june 2017 (while the date below the headlines says 2020), way before the current breakthroughs of deep fakes.
Nice catch. The article was republished. Here's an archive from 2019 of the original 2017 version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191030232152/https://www.bbc.c...
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#4I wonder why the article has the title '20170629-the-hidden-signs-that-can...' in the url. That date would suggest it's from the 29th of june 2017 (while the date below the headlines says 2020), way before the current breakthroughs of deep fakes.
Nice catch. The article was republished. Here's an archive from 2019 of the original 2017 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20191030232152/https://www.bbc.c...
I'll be honest and admit that in taking a second look I noticed that they totally admit to this being a republished article from earlier: "[...] BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to read. So now we’re dedicating a series to help you escape. We’ll be revisiting our most popular features from the last three years in our Lockdown Longreads.[...]"
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice catch. The article was republished. Here's an archive from 2019 of the original 2017 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20191030232152/https://www.bbc.c...
I'll be honest and admit that in taking a second look I noticed that they totally admit to this being a republished article from earlier: " [...] BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to read. So now we’re dedicating a series to help you escape. We’ll be revisiting our most popular features from the last three years in o…
I didn't see that, either. My eyes glossed right over the italics.
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#6With GANs, any fake image detection technique you could derive based on visual data could probably be learned by the discriminator given the right architecture choice.
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#7With GANs, any fake image detection technique you could derive based on visual data could probably be learned by the discriminator given the right architecture choice.
It's an interesting rat race to see; you could make a fake image using AI, then a fake image detector software, then connect the two until the AI generates images no longer recognizable as fake.
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#8I remember this, when it was first published.
Good article. One thing about fakes, is that they don't need to be super-high-quality, in many cases. They just need to be enough to reinforce a narrative to a receptive audience.
An example is that Kerry/Fonda fake. Just looking at it as a thumbnail on my phone, it was easy to see that it was a composite. Also, I have seen both photos, in their original contexts. They are actually fairly well-known images, in their own rights.
That didn't stop a whole lot of folks from thinking it was real. They were already primed.
The comment below, about using an AI "iterative tuner" is probably spot-on. It's only a matter of time, before fake photos, videos, and audio, are par for the course.
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#9With GANs, any fake image detection technique you could derive based on visual data could probably be learned by the discriminator given the right architecture choice.
It's an interesting rat race to see; you could make a fake image using AI, then a fake image detector software, then connect the two until the AI generates images no longer recognizable as fake.
Since so many people don't care about the truth, and LARP that they believe fake news and fake images just own the libs, maybe there's some money to be made by selling them fake fake-image-detector software like Hotdog Or Not: one app that always claims a photo is real, and another app that always claims a photo is fake. Or a single app with in-app-purchases that lets them pay to choose whatever they want to believe!
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15876006/hot-dog-app-andr...
Re: Signs that can reveal a fake photo (2017)
#10Pretty sure Benford's law applies to images and can be used as a tool to detect fakes.