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Digital Trends
Pranob Mehrotra @ Digital Trends · 02/19/2026 06:44 EDT

Research suggests you might be too confident in your ability to spot AI faces

A new study finds that most people, even those with exceptional face-recognition skills, struggle to tell real faces from AI-generated ones.

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