Practice your fake-spotting skills in this DIY drill. It’s from a university course named ‘Calling Bullshit’ at the University of Washington.

Each face-off pairs pictures from two databases: Real images from Flickr, fakes from thispersondoesnotexist.com, a demonstration site that shows images generated by an AI model.

To better distinguish real from fake, professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom suggest checking for any of several possible anomalies:

• Water splotches
• Background problems
• Eyeglasses
• Other asymmetries
• Hair
• Fluorescent bleed
• Teeth

Their course is ‘how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence.’

[In the example picture, the computer-generated image is on the left]

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• Try the game
• How to spot fakes
• How the site works
• Course description
• Thispersondoesnotexist.com – demonstration site for AI generated images (NB: refresh browser to re-load new images)

Which Face Is Real?
Carl Bergstrom & Kevin West | University of Washington | 2019