These incredibly realistic fake faces show how algorithms can now mess with us

The faces above don't seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamed up by a new kind of AI algorithm. Nvidia researchers posted details of the method for producing completely imaginary fake faces with stunning, almost eerie, realism (here's the paper). The researchers, Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, and Timo Aila, came up with a new way of constructing a generative adversarial network, or GAN.