Which of these two realistic renderings of faces is real, and which is a computer-generated fake? Biology Carl Bergstrom and Information School Jevin West - creators of the ’Calling BS” class and site - now have a website to help you better discern between fake and real images online. Here, the image on the right is real. Check your skills at their site, WhichFaceisReal.com.
Go ahead, give it a try. Look closely, study the context and click your answer, choosing which of two realistic headshots is actually a real photograph - and which is complete fakery. How did you do? Don't worry - read the site, and try again. Whichfaceisreal.com is the new website from Jevin West of the University of Washington Information School and Carl Bergstrom of the biology department, the duo who drew wide attention since 2017 for their innovative Information School class, " Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data. As with their Calling BS class, Bergstrom and West seek to address - and help people navigate - the increasing amount of misinformation and deception they see online. When the two saw the artificial intelligence-powered website Thispersondoesnotexist.com - which renders extremely realistic portraits of utterly nonexistent people - they wanted to spread the word that the ability to generate believable, lifelike faces was now possible and proliferating online. "We did not create the technology,” Bergstrom stressed.
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