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Adobe
Teaching
AI To
Spot
The Fakes
Using Photoshop to modify an existing
image has become so ubiquitous that the
popular software tool is responsible for a new by employing AI (Artificial Intelligence) to
verb making its way into widespread usage.
Images are no longer modified or faked; they
are “Photoshopped.”
Photoshop is often cited as the tool of
choice for creating fake images. However,
image manipulation has been around long
before Photoshop arrived on the scene,
and even before digital imaging was a thing.
However, until the arrival of Adobe’s powerful adding a slight murk that would do the Mona
image processing software, photo manipulation
had never been so easy or straightforward.
It’s no surprise that exposing the truth
behind fake images has been a passion of
cynics for many decades. Editing tools have
expanded their repertoire, while methods to
detect devious manipulations and duplicitous
edits have been forced to play catchup
‚“without anywhere near the same level of
success.
Of course, law enforcement and image
forensic teams have access to the latest
and greatest tools for sniffing out less than
authentic images - the rest of us, however,
have had to make do.
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Adobe has partnered with a research
team at UC Berkeley to improve the situation
detect signs that an image of a face has been
somehow manipulated. So far, developments
are limited to a feature of Photoshop called
Face Aware Liquify.
The Face Aware Liquify tool has long been
used for relatively harmless edits, such as
turning that frown upside down, putting just
a touch more surprise in a person’s eyes, or
Lisa proud.
Of course, the feature is still powerful
enough to be used for political gain if the
goal is to sway voters’ opinions. A neutral
expression can easily be changed into one of
anger or disgust.
A recent blog post from Adobe stated that
“This new research is part of a broader effort
across Adobe to better detect any image, video,
audio, and document manipulations.”
So far, Adobe’s AI is limited to faces as it’s the search term will bring up many entertaining
still not possible to point the software at any
image and detect the presence of nefarious
edits.
Photoshop’s Liquify Your Face Tool
The tool providing users the ability to liquify
faces has been around for quite a few versions
of the software and has steadily grown in
sophistication with each new release. When
using this tool, you can push and pull pixels
around until you are satisfied with the results.
Retouchers quickly fell in love with the tool
because it gave them an easy way for them to
modify specific areas of a model’s body. A fact
which often makes hilarious headlines when
a retoucher makes an obvious mistake that a
magazine editor misses, and the publication
makes it to the printers.
Face Aware Liquify is an advanced version
of the tool which uses AI to recognize parts
of the face and give retouchers an enhanced
ability to modify the size and shape of specific
features, such as the nose, eyes, and mouth.
The Growing Danger of Deepfake
A quick YouTube search using deepfake as
examples of image and video manipulation.
Jimmy Fallon turns into Paul Rudd, a Russian
president becomes the spitting image of
Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movie, and
Bill Hader transforms into almost perfect