Study: People are overconfident they can tell AI-made faces from real

Gone are the give-away glitches like strange hair and 12 fingers. The AI-generated photos of faces, increasingly seen on social media, are better than ever and even fooling experts. — Elisa Schu/dpa

SYDNEY: As artificial intelligence-fuelled scams and fraud become increasingly prevalent, most people remain far too confident of their ability to spot a fake face, going by Australian research that asked people to say if photos were real or AI-generated.

Carried out by the University of New South Wales in Sydney and Canberra's Australian National University, the study found "out of date" assumptions about AI among the 125 participants, some of whom were selected for their "exceptional face-recognition ability."