This Is The Face That Will Destroy AI
We’re taking a little detour here into the faults of AI - again. The above photo of me is a true, unfiltered, unadorned look at my face at 7:53 p.m. on March 24th, 2024.
Now let’s look at what Microsoft’s AI image-generator creates for my name, which it is not supposed to do, by the way, for privacy reasons.
A young woman (thanks AI!) with messy hair, in a maker’s lab, in front of a laptop, grinning in a T-shirt and plaid button-down shirt. Not too far off, as far as word associations with my name goes: ham radio, computers. It ignores the legal words associated with my name online. The second photo has weirdly long fingers, though. But I actually went over a year without combing my hair one time. My husband still loved me. Google images, the source material for the visual melange of keywords depicted above has the following:
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Experiments with Ethnicity
My ethnicity is German, Polish, Jewish. Entering “white middle-aged woman without makeup” gets you this:
And “middle-aged Jewish woman without makeup” produces this, again with the white splotches:
Analysis
Every one of the AI-generated images looks like it has makeup on. The eyebrows look like they were drawn on the faces fabricated by the bots. Each looks like it used foundation, and usually lipstick as well. The skin is ridiculously smooth, the teeth are white and perfectly aligned. They are all smiling. Each has the same neck feature though: the neck muscles look very strained, like she is singing opera. Except for the pictures generated by entering my full name.
The actual photo of myself is a complex pattern of blotches and fine lines and marks that is unique to me. It is complicated and far from idealized. I am not smiling. You can see blackheads. One look and anyone can tell that is a real photo, and not AI-generated.
My prediction is that a future test of authenticity will be imperfections, and the complex patterns experience has put on your face. We will soon see “influencers” without makeup so their “followers” will easily be able to see which account is real and which one is a fake that copies content for views and money.
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