Facebook parent company Meta says more than two-thirds of the influence operations it found and took down this year used profile pictures that were generated by a computer.

As the artificial intelligence behind these fakes has become more widely available and better at creating life-like faces, bad actors are adapting them for their attempts to manipulate social media networks.

“It looks like these threat actors are thinking, this is a better and better way to hide,” said Ben Nimmo, who leads global threat intelligence at Meta.

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Bond, S. (2022, December 15). AI-generated fake faces have become a hallmark of online influence operations. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143114122/ai-generated-fake-faces-have-become-a-hallmark-of-online-influence-operations