Fake Tinder Profiles: This Photo Is Not Real
The person you see does not exist — the answer? A.I.
4 min readNov 2, 2020
It looks like a professionally taken photo of a beautiful young Japanese woman. Maybe you’ll come across her on Tinder and be immediately drawn to her. At the latest when she tries to avoid meeting up with you, you should become suspicious. Is she a catfish? Yes.
The truth is, that this photo is a fabrication of modern A.I. technology. This woman was never born. She never existed. Scary, isn’t it?
By now, A.I. is capable of creating these photos out of thin air. Here are a few more examples:
The technology behind these seemingly real images is a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) called StyleGAN, developed by Tero Karras and his team of researchers working for Nvidia. A.I. uses deep learning to create…
