Experts have warned that generative artificial intelligence is now capable of producing images of faces that appear more human than actual faces. So what does this mean for the future of the internet?
Experts say our ability to distinguish between artificially generated images and genuine photos is rapidly fading.
Subtle visual cues such as this set of asymmetrical earrings can be used to identify this image as generated by AI.Digital media lecturer Brendan Murphy from Central Queensland University says despite recent improvements in the technology, a trained eye can usually detect visual cues that give away AI-generated faces."Even if you look at things like teeth you might find that they're slightly asymmetrical — one too many, one too few.
Ben Steward, a PhD candidate and co-author of the ANU research said participants were often using "attractiveness" as a distinguishing factor in their decision-making. "We know that faces with averaged features are considered more attractive, but also more symmetrical, and less memorable – two more features which we found could be used to distinguish between AI and human faces," Mr Steward says.While cues like proportionality, familiarity and memorability were identified as traits associated with human faces by participants in the study, they applied those qualities in the "wrong direction", the researchers found.
The string of high-profile incidents has prompted more and more questions about how to account for this technology once it becomes weaponised."The real danger is having technologies that exist that you aren't aware exist," Professor Bergstrom says. For Professor Bergstrom, however, the key going forward will not be "learning the subtleties of AI", but rather, knowing what can be faked and finding ways to "triangulate what is true"."It is knowing that just because you see a face, it doesn't mean there's a person there.
Professor Bergstrom says regulation of this sort is not the first time internet audiences have had to contend with a new frontier. Social media has long been an unwieldy force, but politicians must now confront the question of when enough is enoughHow long will women be marching in the street asking not to be murdered?
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