AI deepfakes creating fake humans who 'don't exist' to spread misinformation
dailystar.co.ukChina, Russia and elsewhere.The AI-generated faces are created using a technology known as generated adversarial networks, or GANs.They consist of a pair of networks, one with the job of creating an imaginary face, the other which criticises the results again and again until the image is perfect.These fake images can help sway public opinion by creating the impression of a whole crowd of people who all think the same way.
A website called This Person Does Not Exist publishes a near-infinite number of the fake faces online, created in real time every time you refresh the page. “A year ago, this was a novelty,” says Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at social media intelligence group Graphika. “Now it feels like every operation we analyse.
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