Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Can people really tell AI images from real ones?

Our new study, “A (Mid)Journey Through Reality”, published today (!) in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies (Q1 in PSY/CS), reveals that humans perform at near-chance levels (47-55%) when trying to distinguish state-of-the-art AI-generated images from real photographs.

Also, we’re more likely to doubt AI-generated images, even when we’re wrong (impostor bias); we frequently change our minds to agree with an algorithm’s suggestion, even when it’s incorrect (automation bias), and men were significantly more susceptible to this latter across all experiments.

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1155/hbe2/9977058

Luca Guarnera, Ignazio Zangara, Pasquale Caponnetto, Sebastiano Battiato