Researchers at the Australian National University have developed a training system to help people spot AI faces in a study led by researchers at the ANU’s Emotions and Faces Lab. 

Participants were trained to spot AI-generated faces by drawing their attention to six perceptual qualities: distinctiveness, memorability, proportionality, symmetry, attractiveness and expressiveness.

The ability of all participants to spot AI faces improved, with “high performers” achieving near perfection. 

Lead researcher Associate Professor Amy Dawel said it was amazing to see improvement in people ability to detect AI face’s.

“We’ve shown our training is effective for some of the most convincing fakes available, StyleGAN faces. Now we need to find out whether that training generalises to other AI-generated faces” Dawel said.

“We are also working on how to optimise the training – making it shorter and ensuring the benefits last over time.’’  

The study, Training Humans to Detect AI-generated Faces, is published in the scientific journal PNAS.