{"id":230579,"date":"2026-02-05T05:26:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ai-faces-fool-most-of-us-but-5-minutes-of-training-may-help-you-spot-fakes"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:26:45","slug":"ai-faces-fool-most-of-us-but-5-minutes-of-training-may-help-you-spot-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ai-faces-fool-most-of-us-but-5-minutes-of-training-may-help-you-spot-fakes","title":{"rendered":"AI Faces Fool Most of Us, But 5 Minutes of Training May Help You Spot Fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-faces-fool-most-of-us-but-5-minutes-of-training-may-help-you-spot-fakes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI image generators have become remarkably proficient in a very short period, capable of creating faces that <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.isci.2022.105441\">are considered<\/a> to be more realistic than the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new study points to a way that we can improve our AI-face detection capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the UK tested the face-assessing capabilities of a group of 664 volunteers, consisting of super-recognizers (who have shown a high level of skill for comparing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/some-people-never-forget-a-face-and-now-we-know-their-secret\">recognizing real faces<\/a> in previous studies), and people with typical face-recognition abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI image generators have become remarkably proficient in a very short period, capable of creating faces that are considered to be more realistic than the real thing. However, a new study points to a way that we can improve our AI-face detection capabilities. Researchers from the UK tested the face-assessing capabilities of a group of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}