With the rapid advances in artificial intelligence, computer-generated images — including hyperrealistic faces — are becoming more common. Many look so convincing it can be hard to tell them apart from real photos.
In a new study, researchers tested people’s ability to distinguish images of real faces from AI-generated ones and found that most participants missed most of the AI-generated faces. Even “super-recognizers” — an elite group with exceptionally strong facial-processing abilities — were able to correctly identify fake faces as fake only 41% of the time. Typical recognizers correctly identified only about 30% of the AI-generated faces.
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