You, Me, and My AI-Generated Alternate Identity

There, she posts pictures of herself in a biker shirt, posing in front of her gleaming red-and-blue Yamaha Telkor on dirt roads and hilltops and misty beaches. But one day, she accidentally posted a picture of her bike on Twitter that captured her reflection in the rear-view mirror. The reflection was of a middle-aged man–because the woman in the photo was actually a 50-year-old man named Soya who transformed his face using a machine-learning-powered face tune app. "No-one will read what a normal middle-aged man, taking care of his motorcycle and taking pictures outside, posts on his account," Soya told the Japanese TV program Getsuyou Kara Yofukashi. That said, happily, his fans responded mostly positively to his late-in-life, accidental gender reveal.