Friday, December 11, 2020

Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? - Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White, NY Times

These people may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter. Or people whose product reviews you’ve read on Amazon, or dating profiles you’ve seen on Tinder. They look stunningly real at first glance. But they do not exist. They were born from the mind of a computer. And the technology that makes them is improving at a startling pace.