Menschen haben zu großes Vertrauen in ihre Fähigkeit, zwischen echten Gesichtern und KI-generierten Gesichtern zu unterscheiden. Eine Studie zeigt, dass sich die KI-Technologie so weit verbessert hat, dass die realistischsten Ergebnisse keine offensichtlichen Mängel mehr aufweisen und es schwieriger ist, KI-Bilder mit Hinweisen, die früher funktionierten, von der Realität zu unterscheiden
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/02/humans-overconfident-telling-AI-faces-real-faces-people-fake?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Hi r/science, sharing this study that our researcher Dr James Dunn, alongside peers from the ANU, has published in the British Journal of Psychology: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.70063
Early AI-generated faces were often obvious thanks to visual artefacts like distorted teeth, glasses that merged into faces, ears that didn’t quite attach properly, or strange backgrounds that bled into hair and skin. But as face-generation systems have improved, those artefacts have become far less common, and the most realistic outputs no longer show obvious flaws.
For this study, researchers recruited 125 participants, including 36 people with exceptional face-recognition ability, known as super-recognisers. Participants completed an online test in which they were shown a series of faces and asked to judge whether each image was real or AI-generated. Obvious visual flaws were screened out beforehand.
People with average face-recognition ability performed only slightly better than chance. While super-recognisers performed better than other participants, the improvement was only a slim margin. What was consistent was people’s confidence in their ability to spot an AI-generated face, even when that confidence wasn’t matched by their actual performance.
I have no idea what the point of generative AI for pictures, movies and writing is.
How is society improved by this?
Wow, that seems like bad news….
A still picture is easy to pass off as human. It’s videos where things get tougher for the clankers to lie to us.
We might get there eventually, but for now it’s still doable
The future will be quite a more uncertain and possibly frightening place. More and more of this will be used against us it feels like.
Well that took 3 weeks… Makes me quite concerned where we’ll be in 3 more.
If it helps, I got all the answers correct without looking too deeply or too long, except that I thought 1 was AI as well. If I can do it with my stupid human brain then it should be possible to detect it with much more advanced tools.
Does it matter if it is there today for stills/videos? It will get there, and sooner than later.
It comes down to us reckoning with what this all means.
I’m excited for post-humanism.
You don’t have BIG flaws anymore. But AI still fundamentally generates images in a specific way that is apparent. Is it apparent with a half second glance? Maybe not? Is it apparent in a 1″ x 1″ tiny photo? Maybe not. But when looked at in detail, AI is always AI and has some very common standard behaviors. For example, in less than 10 seconds with a quick scan of the 12 images, I was right on all but 2, not seriously looking at anything, just a light browse. There’s also some deliberate choices in the photos selected. For example, 1 seems intentionally goofy and 8 is quite good as an image. 6 is intentionally low res. Like there’s some intent in picking these. There’s also specific choice in images with these backgrounds out of focus and non distinct. AI tends to have a detail problem, a contrast problem, a light source problem, graininess, and consistency of elements if there was more content in the images. And any image of actual high detail would significantly more obvious versus around a 400×300 image.
Am I allowed to, „It’s over.“ now?
Sounds like something we should definitely keep pouring countless amount of money and natural resources into developing
A whole class of, not people.
Yay.
[Easy 18/20], went straight through without more than 10 seconds on any of them, no zoom. The AI photos don’t look fake, but they mostly look like the supporting cast of a film. Real humans are rarely lucky enough to look like professional actors.
I still got 5/7 right regarding this but when it comes to anything that truly matters then researching as an individual within context matters more than anything related to perceived experience regarding understanding. If you do not seek out answers, cross reference, and challenging your beliefs in your understandings then you will fail the AI test where it truly matters
AI can generate incredibly real faces; it cannot generate and lifetime of nuance. It certs only cannot confuse anyone that knows one should seek truth. That said, unfortunately, many people will see XYZ person saying ABC and not blink.