Facebook's latest takedown has a twist -- AI-generated profile pictures

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Facebook has been regularly removing fake accounts in its fight against disinformation, but the company's latest announcement presented a twist.

in its fight against disinformation, but the company's latest announcement presented a twist -- artificially generated profile pictures.that it had taken down a network of accounts for “inauthentic behavior” , and mentioned that some of them had used artificially created profile pictures."Some of these accounts used profile photos generated by artificial intelligence and masqueraded as Americans," the statement said.

The faces are all artificially created using technology similar to what goes into"deepfake" videos, where real videos are edited to make the subjects appear to speak words they never uttered.report from AI research firm, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, a group established to research disinformation, outlined how they identified the artificially created faces from the accounts removed by Facebook.

The report says that of the more than 900 accounts taken down,"dozens" had used these AI-generated fake faces as profile pictures. The pictures look completely normal to the naked eye but expert analysis shows telltale signs that the photos have been manipulated as outlined in this example below from the report.

However the Epoch Times denies it is responsible for the creation of these Facebook pages that were removed last week..

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