AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on [MIT Technology Review, October 2021]

Title:

AI fake-face generators can be rewound to reveal the real faces they trained on

 

Author:

Will Douglas Heaven

 

Published:

MIT Technology Review, 12 October 2021

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/12/1036844/ai-gan-fake-faces-data-privacy-security-leak/

 

From this article:

Load up the website This Person Does Not Exist and it’ll show you a human face, near-perfect in its realism yet totally fake. Refresh and the neural network behind the site will generate another, and another, and another. The endless sequence of AI-crafted faces is produced by a generative adversarial network (GAN)—a type of AI that learns to produce realistic but fake examples of the data it is trained on.