AI can change a fashion model’s pose and alter their clothes to match

By Chris Stokel-Walker Soon, the model showcasing your online clothing purchases may not have actually made the pose in the picture. That’s because a neural network can now repose human beings and change their clothes in photographs without losing key details. Badour AlBahar at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and her colleagues at Adobe Research developed … Read more

AI-generated deepfake voices can fool both humans and smart assistants

By Chris Stokel-Walker A woman using a smart home assistant RossHelen/Shutterstock Freely available software that can mimic a specific individual’s voice produces results that can fool people and voice-activated tools such as smart home assistants. Security researchers are increasingly concerned by deepfake software, which uses artificial intelligence to alter videos or photographs, for example by … Read more

AI can detect a deepfake face because its pupils have jagged edges

By Chris Stokel-Walker Could this be a computer-generated face? Check the eyes Manjurul Haque / Alamy Creating a fake persona online with a computer-generated face is easier than ever before, but there is a simple way to catch these phony pictures – look at the eyes. The inability of artificial intelligence to draw circular pupils … Read more

Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators

By Chris Stokel-Walker Deepfake images created by https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ Karras et al. and Nvidia Facebook has developed an artificial intelligence that it claims can detect deepfake images and even reverse-engineer them to figure out how they were made and perhaps trace their creators. Deepfakes are wholly artificial images created by an AI. Facebook’s new AI looks … Read more