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Real Face or AI-Generated Fake?
Can you tell the difference between the two?
We have seen great advancement in Artificial Intelligence in the past couple of years. It has applications in industries like healthcare, fashion, education, and agriculture, and is predicted to be one of the next big digital disruptions.
As Andrew Ng puts it:
Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years.
However, AI is a tool that can be misused. It is a powerful tool that can be used to disrupt everyday lives if it falls into the hands of the wrong people.
In this article, I will cover an application of AI that has been used to trick people and spread misinformation.
Applications of AI trickery
In the past few years, an application of AI called “deepfake” has taken the Internet by storm. Deepfakes are highly convincing fake videos created by neural networks.
Faces of celebrities and politicians were pasted onto a different body, and fake videos were created.
In the year 2020, deepfakes went mainstream.