{
  "id": 9139,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120481119",
  "title": "AI-synthesized faces are indistinguishable from real faces and more trustworthy",
  "summary": "Artificial intelligence (AI)-synthesized text, audio, image, and video are being weaponized for the purposes of nonconsensual intimate imagery, financial fraud, and disinformation campaigns. Our evaluation of the photorealism of AI-synthesized faces indicates that synthesis engines have passed through the uncanny valley and are capable of creating faces that are indistinguishable-and more trustworthy-than real faces.",
  "authors": "Sophie J. Nightingale, Hany Farid",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "misinformation,military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2022-02-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:50.746Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/9139",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120481119",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}