But the initial image that was shared in many of these posts had signs" of being created by a generative adversarial network - a type of AI that can be used for creating images of fake people that are difficult to distinguish from the real thing - said Hany Farid, a digital forensics and misinformation expert at the University of California, Berkeley.
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“Everybody is vulnerable to attack, and anyone can do the attacking,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who focuses on digital forensics and misinformation.
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