WF-YADKNN
Fake LinkedIn Profiles Created Using GAN Photos
More than a thousand inauthentic LinkedIn profiles using allegedly GAN-generated photos were notified by researchers at Stanford to LinkedIn’s staff, and many of which were removed for violating rules against creating fake profiles and falsifying information.
- Date it happened
- 2022-02-28
- Organisation involved
- Unknown
- Product, system or model
- The technology most likely used to create the LinkedIn profiles is known as a generative adversarial network that creates lifelike faces by training on large datasets of real people's photos.
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