Fake Profile Detector tells you if people are real or fake online
Fake Profile Detector is a new browser extension for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that helps you determine if a person is real or fake online.
Designed by V7 Laboratories, a company that focuses on vision technology and AI, Fake Profile Detector helps Internet users find out if a person online is a bot or computer generated. Finding out about this can be important depending on the circumstances.
Examples include finding out if potential dating partners are real, how trustworthy news or messages someone posted are, if a potential business partner is not fake, or if an image that has been posted online shows real human beings.
Fake Profile Detector works immediately after installation, as long as notifications are not blocked in the browser. The extension uses the browser’s notification system to display the results of its scans.
All you have to do is right-click on a photo and select the “verify fake profile photo” option. Fake Profile Detector scans the photo and displays the result in a matter of seconds. Sometimes you may need to upload the image in its own tab, but the extension reminds you when it’s needed.
A quick test with a couple of real and fake photos, mostly computer-generated faces, for example of bored humans, was successful. The detection algorithm accurately determined whether the people in the photos were real or fake.
The developers note that the AI model used works only with “StyleGAN images used to generate fake human faces of people,” and not deep fake videos or face swaps. It’s also important to note that the extension requires photos or images with only one person in them; it cannot determine if a group of people in an image is real or fake.
Still, it can be a useful extension for double-checking people on Twitter, Facebook, or other sites you want to interact with or already interact with.
The dependency on Chrome’s notification system can cause some problems. Users who disable notifications can’t use the extension at all and it also doesn’t work on sites with notifications blocked. Developers should consider adding an option to the extension to display the results by changing their icon.
A quick test on other Chromium-based browsers was successful. Fake Profile Detector worked fine and should work on most Chromium based browsers.
Now you: what do you do to determine if someone is real or fake online?
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