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Due to having so many people trying to impersonate me on the internet, I've become somewhat of a expert on verification pictures.
You can still easily tell that this is fake because if you look closely, the details, especially the background clutter, is utterly nonsensical.
The point isn't that you can spot it.
The point is that the automated system can't spot it.
Or are you telling me there is a person looking at every verification photo, and if they did they would thoroughly scan the photo for imperfections?
The idea of using a picture upload for automated verification is completely unviable. A much more commonly used system would be something like telling you to perform a random gesture on camera on the spot, like "turn your head slowly" or "open your mouth slowly" which would be trivial for a human to perform but near impossible for AI generators.
That's not really the case but moreoever the gap is closing at a blistering pace. Approximately two years ago this stuff was in the distant future. One year ago the lid was blown open. Today we're seeing real-time frame generation. This rallying against the tech is misguided. It needs to be embraced and understood. Trying to do otherwise is great folly as everything will fall even further behind and lead to even larger misunderstandings. This isn't theoretical. It's already here. We can't bury our heads in the sand.
If you look at gaussian splatting and diffusion morphs/videos, this is merely in the space of "not broadly on hugging face yet" and not impossible, or even difficult depending on the gesture.
We're months away from fully posable and animatable 3d models of these AI images. It already exists in demos and on arxiv, it runs on consumer hardware but not in realtime, so a video upload would work but a live stream would require renting a cloud GPU ($$$).
Having an AI act out random gestures is really not that different from generating an image based on a prompt if you think about it. The temporal element has already been done, the biggest factor right now is probably that it's too computationally heavy to do in real time, but I can't see that being a problem for more than a year.
I think so. I don't think there would be more than a few dozens of verification to do every day, with a dozen of mods, it seems doable in this context. It's not like millions of users are asking for verification every day.
More than that - these systems will eventually figure out how to not bitch the background so obviously. Then what? As others have said, we could switch to verification videos. That will be an extra year or two.
The system doesn't even need to get better at backgrounds, you just generate more images until one looks good.
Shit, are you telling me that every time I see myself in the mirror I'm actually looking at a string of AI generated images, generated in real-time? The matrix is real. 😱
Yes, my clavicles are actually very asymmetric. ☹️
Yeah see, now I am not really sure if you're the real Margot Robbie.
Could you send me a verification picture?
But then how will I astroturf (I mean, organically market) my current and future movies, like Golden Globe winning summer blockbuster, Barbie, now available on Blu-Ray and select streaming services, here if I get verified?
I'm not seeing the levitating hair
Me neither. There's clearly more pictures that aren't included here, so maybe on one of those?
The odd thing about the hair in that picture to me is that on the left side of the photo, there's one piece that seems to go on a nearly 90 degree bend for seemingly no reason, mid air. I don't generally see hair get.... Kinked like that. I suppose it's not outside the realm of possibility, but it's odd at least.
The rest of the hair seems fine to me, but I'm no expert.
I will note however that the object(s) in the background on the left side of the photo look like a gigantic (novelty sized) point and shoot camera from the 90's. The box on top is the viewfinder and there's the impression of a circle below that which would be the lens.
Just makes me giggle at the thought of such a large disposable camera.
Curly hair can look like that when it's curling tightly towards/away from you. It looks fairly natural to me.
every time I'd seen this photo, I only focused on the subject in the foreground, if I were the one verifying that the person in the photo is real, I'd have fallen for it. To me, the subject is entirely convincing. the issues you mentioned about the clavicles and hair, i think kind of make it a bit more convincing. Nobody is completely symmetrical for one, so seeing something like that, while not common, wouldn't be necessarily uncommon. The hair, to me, just looks like normal person hair. sometimes hair do be like that.
Dude same, before I even read anything I was thinking 'that's a cute girl I didn't know they started doing verifications on lemmy' then I read and saw the whole hullabaloo.
Didn't get the 5^th point, there's only one clavicle visible, am I missing something?
Even so clavicles can be asymmetrical due to previous injury. We are pretty asymmetrical overall if you look closely enough.
Well she's Margot Robbie, so her clavicles are symmetrical af. She probably just assumes the rest of us are like that too 😓
Wow, even after reading your comment, I don't think I would be able to recognise these.
An easy 'solution' to fix the background is to just use a mild blurring tool. They're verifying you not your house, it wouldn't be sus to just have a mild messy blur around you.
The bokeh effect is surprisingly hard to fake, actually, because it has to do with the physical properties of the camera lens. I think with a light Gaussian blur it would be even less convincing.
The "holes" on her cheeks are easy to miss but seriously unsettling close up. They're not like freckles or blackheads but more like what termite tunnels look like in wood.
Nah. They just look like big pores. There are a few giveaways here that it's AI generated, but the pores aren't one of them.
Source: have big pores. Also, google images.