People Are Bad at Spotting Fake LinkedIn Profiles Generated by AI

2/21/2022

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NewScientist -- To test how easily people can be fooled by manipulated profiles, Jaron Mink at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and his colleagues asked 286 study participants to look at three LinkedIn profiles each. Two of the three profiles contained computer-generated information, either in the form of a deepfake profile picture or AI-generated text.

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This story was published February 21, 2022.