The trend of fake profiles and fake accounts on social media has now taken a completely different turn as fake identities are breaching into the professional field too and people hardly have any chance to know the truth. These fake personas generated by AI are taking money away by fooling people into thinking that they are legit. AI programs called generative adversarial networks, or GANs can learn to create fake images that are less and less distinguishable from real images, by pitting two neural networks against each other. Nightingale and her colleague Hany Farid at the University of California, Berkeley, asked 315 participants, recruited on a crowdsourcing website, to say whether they could distinguish a selection of 400 fake photos from 400 photographs of real people. Each set consisted of 100 people from each of four ethnic groups: white, black, East Asian, and South Asian.

Generator: the generator generates new data instances that are "similar" to the training data, in our case celebA images. Generator takes random latent vector and outputs a "fake" image of the same size as our reshaped celebA image. Discriminator: the discriminator evaluate the authenticity of provided images; it classifies the images from the generator and the original image. Discriminator takes true of fake images and outputs the probability estimate ranging between 0 and 1. Here, D refers to the discriminator network, while G obviously refers to the generator.

As artificial intelligence becomes more and more capable, the implications of those capabilities start to become equal parts scary and impressive. That's particularly true when it comes to creating images of human faces, and a new website that's making the rounds today sums up the capabilities of machine learning pretty darn well. If you thought that AI wasn't to the point where it could create fake-yet-believable human faces, prepare for a rather rude awakening. The website was created by Phillip Wang, who used NVIDIA's generative adversarial network, StyleGAN, to make it. It's a fairly simple website as far as design is concerned, as it only shows a single image of a human face when you visit it.