Fake Profile Detector tells you if people are real or fake online

[douglas9]

Designed by V7Labs, a company that focuses on vision technology and AI, Fake Profile Detector helps Internet users find out if a person online is a bot or computer-generated. Finding out about this may be important depending on the circumstances.

Examples include finding out if potential dating partners are real, how reliable news or messages are that someone posted, if a potential trade partner is not fake, or whether an image that has been posted online shows real human beings.

Fake Profile Detector works out of the box after installation, provided that notifications are not blocked in the browser. The extension uses the browser's notification system to display the results of its scans.

All you do then is to right-click on a photo and select the "check fake profile picture" option. Fake Profile Detector scans the photo and displays the result in a matter of seconds. Sometimes, you may need to load the image in its own tab, but the extension reminds you when that is required.

A quick test with a couple of real and fake photos, mostly computer generated faces, e.g., from Bored Humans, was successful. The detection algorithm determined accurately whether people on photos were real or fake.

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/29/fake-profile-detector-tells-you-if-people-are-real-or-fake-online/

[FarPoint]

1. I can't figure out...

How to use this tool....

[FarPoint]

3. typo...

I can't figure out how to use this tool.

[tanyev]

4. Handy.

[OhZone]

5. I tried it -

EDIT:

Didn't work on one copy of Chome, but it worked on another on another of my puters.

I guess it could be a useful tool.

Thanks.

[CloudWatcher]

6. "if people are real or fake"

I think this is an overly-broad simplification of what this tool can do.

It tries to figure out if a photo is computer-generated or of a real person.

It does not attempt to detect if the user behind the profile is who they claim. When
catfishing the faker normally uses photos of a real people and then misrepresents
who they are.

https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/catfishing

So this is a tool that can sometimes show a profile is fake. But passing this test
is far from showing that a profile is real.

And ... I expect as computer generated photos will improve over time, the usefulness
of this tool will eventually evaporate.