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Generator of fake portraits

People tend not to think about the effect that
neural networks have on our lives, because
usually, we see the result of its work and not the
"face" of a neural network. Perhaps that is why
the generator of fake photos became the main
topic of discussion for several weeks in the
media devoted to technology at the end of 2020.
Not everyone was able to guess that AI could
generate a realistic face of a non-existent
person in a couple of seconds. Fake portraits
look very realistic and it's frightening. If AI can
create faces for itself and can text like real
people, then what is going to happen next?

Generator of fake faces of non-

existent humans

We are talking about the website

thispersondoesnotexist.com ("this person does
not exist dot com") and are going to tell of the
history and areas of application. The way the
generator works will be explained further.

The AI face generator is powered by StyleGAN, a

neural network from Nvidia developed in 2018.
GAN consists of 2 competing neural networks,
one generates something, and the second tries
to find whether results are real or generated by
the first. Training ends when the first neural
network begins to constantly deceive the
second.

An interesting point is that the creation of

photographs of non-existent people was a by-
product: the main goal was to train the AI to
recognize fake faces and faces in general. The
company needed this to improve the
performance of its video cards by automatically
recognizing faces and applying other rendering
algorithms to them. However, since

the StyleGAN code is publicly available, an

engineer at Uber was able to take it and create a
random face generator that rocked the internet.

About the generator

For the user, everything works very simply. As
soon as you are on the website random face is
generated. You can download the picture if you
want. Refresh the page if you don’t like the
person that you are seeing. If you see the same
face, just wait a couple of seconds, and refresh
the page again. The website shows the results
of the generator’s work (which are updated every
2-3 seconds) not the generator itself.

How to recognize an image of a

fake person

It is almost impossible to recognise an image of

a fake person. AI is so developed that 90% of
fakes are not recognized by an ordinary person
and 50% are not recognized by an experienced
photographer. There are no services for
recognition. Occasionally, a neural network
makes mistakes, which is why artifacts appear:
an incorrectly bent pattern, a strange hair color,
and so on.

The only thing you need to do is take a closer

look: humans’ visual processing systems are far
stronger than computers’, so it is possible to
recognise forgery by detection.

Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom created a

website called “Which Face Is Real”, which is
focused on teaching people to be more
analytical of potentially false portraits. Before
making suggestions that a person in a photo is
existent, there are several things that need to be
considered.

One of the most common ones is symmetrical

issues, in particular eyeglasses and earrings.

Same uneven issues with teeth are quite

common too. Look for odd characteristics like
pixels and repeated incisors. Fake hair, in
general, may seem with some glow around it or
look too straight and streaked, again, with visible
asymmetry.

Study background carefully. If it’s fake, it may

include unusual distortions in shapes and lines,
or have a torn appearance overall. Bleed-through
occurs in bright colors that stand out from the
background onto a fake person’s head.

Another distinguishing feature of the NVIDIA

“StyleGAN algorithm” is glossy “water
splotches”.

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