AI has figured out how to draw deepfake hands

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One of the biggest giveaways for spotting a deepfake image may have just been fixed after a leading artificial intelligence image generator figured out how to create realistic hands. Recommended Google rival to ChatGPT begins rollout across UK Human hands are considered by many artists as among the trickiest things to draw, and early AI image makers from Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s Dall-E showed that generative artificial intelligence also struggled. “Be extra critical of any political imagery, especially photography, you see online that is trying to incite a reaction.” open image in gallery Recent viral images appearing to show French President Emmanuel Macron at riots could easily be spotted as fakes by looking at the hands AI researchers have previously attempted to explain why generative artificial intelligence trained on billions of images from the internet struggle with certain aspects of the human form. “It’s generally understood that within AI datasets, human images display hands less visibly than they do faces,” a spokesperson for Stability AI told BuzzFeed News earlier this year.