Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated
Technological advances render the distinction between artificial (e.g., computer-generated faces) and real stimuli increasingly difficult, yet the factors driving our beliefs regarding the nature of ambiguous stimuli remain largely unknown. In this study, 150 participants rated 109 pictures of faces...
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| author | Dominique Makowski An Shu Te Ana Neves Stephanie Kirk Ngoi Zi Liang Panagiotis Mavros S.H. Annabel Chen |
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| description | Technological advances render the distinction between artificial (e.g., computer-generated faces) and real stimuli increasingly difficult, yet the factors driving our beliefs regarding the nature of ambiguous stimuli remain largely unknown. In this study, 150 participants rated 109 pictures of faces on 4 characteristics (attractiveness, beauty, trustworthiness, familiarity). The stimuli were then presented again with the new information that some of them were AI-generated, and participants had to rate each image according to whether they believed them to be real or fake. Despite all images being pictures of real faces from the same database, most participants did indeed rate a large portion of them as ‘fake’ (often with high confidence), with strong intra- and inter-individual variability. Our results suggest a gender-dependent role of attractiveness on reality judgements, with faces rated as more attractive being classified as more real. We also report links between reality beliefs tendencies and dispositional traits such as narcissism and paranoid ideation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-df7586075345423b9fdfd3dd773f362d2025-01-12T05:23:59ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182025-02-01252104670Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generatedDominique Makowski0An Shu Te1Ana Neves2Stephanie Kirk3Ngoi Zi Liang4Panagiotis Mavros5S.H. Annabel Chen6School of Psychology, University of Sussex, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Corresponding author.School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandSchool of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSchool of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeDepartment of Economics and Social Sciences, Télécom Paris, FranceSchool of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; National Institute of Education, Singapore; Centre for Research and Development in Learning, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeTechnological advances render the distinction between artificial (e.g., computer-generated faces) and real stimuli increasingly difficult, yet the factors driving our beliefs regarding the nature of ambiguous stimuli remain largely unknown. In this study, 150 participants rated 109 pictures of faces on 4 characteristics (attractiveness, beauty, trustworthiness, familiarity). The stimuli were then presented again with the new information that some of them were AI-generated, and participants had to rate each image according to whether they believed them to be real or fake. Despite all images being pictures of real faces from the same database, most participants did indeed rate a large portion of them as ‘fake’ (often with high confidence), with strong intra- and inter-individual variability. Our results suggest a gender-dependent role of attractiveness on reality judgements, with faces rated as more attractive being classified as more real. We also report links between reality beliefs tendencies and dispositional traits such as narcissism and paranoid ideation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824005481AttractivenessAI-generated imagesFictionFake newsSense of reality |
| spellingShingle | Dominique Makowski An Shu Te Ana Neves Stephanie Kirk Ngoi Zi Liang Panagiotis Mavros S.H. Annabel Chen Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated Acta Psychologica Attractiveness AI-generated images Fiction Fake news Sense of reality |
| title | Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated |
| title_full | Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated |
| title_fullStr | Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated |
| title_full_unstemmed | Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated |
| title_short | Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated |
| title_sort | too beautiful to be fake attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated |
| topic | Attractiveness AI-generated images Fiction Fake news Sense of reality |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824005481 |
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