In a report for the New York Times, Kashmir Hill and Jeremy White analyzed the growing trend of creating simulated or fake images of people that do not exist. Websites sell these images to individuals and groups that carry varying motives in relation to how they'll use them. The images are produced by generative adversarial networks, which is a type of artificial intelligence that generates a facial image based on computer analysis of real photos submitted to the system. Editor's note: IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, wrote about facial recognition programs in "Will NYT's facial-recognition story sway privacy debate?"
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