AI-generated faces have crossed a line from uncanny to eerily convincing, turning casual scrolling into a minefield of synthetic people who never existed. The same tools that can harmlessly conjure a model for a clothing ad can also fabricate a politician’s confession or a friend’s “selfie” from a place they have never been.

Surprisingly, the training increased accuracy by similar amounts in super recognizers and typical recognizers, Gray said. Because super recognizers are better at spotting fake faces at baseline, this suggests that they are relying on another set of clues, not simply rendering errors, to identify fake faces.

Fal's new model FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a distilled, ultra-fast image generation model that’s already outperforming many of its larger rivals on public benchmarks, and is available now on Hugging Face, though very importantly: under a custom Black Forest non-commercial license.

Gone are the days when you needed to spend hundreds of dollars on a professional photographer. Today, you can create stunning headshots right from your computer or smartphone. But here's the thing, not all AI headshot generators produce the same result.