That Person Doesnt Exist

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Jelle Wieringa, a security awareness advocate atKnowBe4, agreed.

He told Lifewire over email that combatting actual deep fakes themselves is extremely hard to do without specialized technology.

A computer generated image of a person staring at a wireframe of a person.

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This led the researchers to test if perceptions of trustworthiness could help people identify artificial images.

The number might not sound like much, but the researchers claim it is statistically significant.

It can lead to people becoming distrustful of everything they perceive."

An illustration of two people who look exactly the same but one is Real 110% and the other is Fake 100%.

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Chris Hauk, consumer privacy champion atPixel Privacy, agreed.

These are things that statically generated faces could not perform," shared Kuhn.

The researchers have proposed guidelines to regulate their creation and distribution to protect the public from synthetic images.