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I like to think I'm pretty good at spotting the tell-tale signs of AI-generated images: weirdly soft lighting, blurry background details, accessories or smaller details that simply disappear into nothing. Unfortunately, every 'real or fake' test I've taken thus far has been immediately humbling.

The latest 'real or AI-generated' test I've stumbled across comes from UNSW Sydney and focuses on human faces. The research team's demo presents 20 faces that participants must sort as either 'Human' or 'Computer-generated (AI).' I scored 14/20, which is above the average of 11/20—though I'm sure I don't need to point out how that average performance score is only slightly better than leaving it to chance.

The research team presented the test to a small sample group of 125 participants, and has since published the findings in a paper published in the British Journal of Psychology. Of the 125 participants, 36 were identified as 'super-recognizers'—that is, folks who "excel at a range of face processing tasks including recognizing faces they have only seen briefly before and perceiving differences between very similar faces." The team found these folk were also better than average at discerning an AI face from an actual human one.

Source: PC Gamer