{"id":7687,"date":"2019-02-19T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/ai-fake-face-website-launched\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:12:28","slug":"ai-fake-face-website-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/ai-fake-face-website-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"AI fake face website launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"A selection of faces from the website\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/2C6A\/production\/_105707311_thispersondoesnotexist7.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">thispersondoesnotexist.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    A selection of faces from the website<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A software developer has created a website that generates fake faces, using artificial intelligence (AI). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thispersondoesnotexist.com\/\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Thispersondoesnotexist.com<\/a> generates a new lifelike image each time the page is refreshed, using technology developed by chipmaker Nvidia. <\/p>\n<p>Some visitors to the website say they have been amazed by the convincing nature of some of the fakes, although others are more clearly artificial.  <\/p>\n<p>And many of them have gone on to post some of the fake faces on social media. <\/p>\n<p>Nvidia developed a pair of adversarial AI programs to create and then critique the images, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The company later made these programs open source, meaning they are publicly accessible.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">thispersondoesnotexist.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Not all faces on the website are convincingly human<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Realistic fakes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the quality of synthetic speech, text and imagery improves, researchers are encountering ethical dilemmas about whether to share their work.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p05mwgtx.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Media playback is unsupported on your device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media caption<\/span>Why these faces do not belong to &#8216;real&#8217; people<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, the Elon Musk backed OpenAI research group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47249163\" class=\"story-body__link\">announced<\/a> it had created an artificially intelligent &#8220;writer&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>But the San Francisco group took the unusual step of not releasing the technology behind the project publicly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that the ability to generate synthetic text that is conditioned on specific subjects has the potential for significant abuse,&#8221;  the group said in a statement to AI blog Synced.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47296481\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright thispersondoesnotexist.com Image caption A selection of faces from the website A software developer has created a website that generates fake faces, using artificial intelligence (AI). 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