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Caption: Getty Images. Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognize you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled disguises! Earlier this month at the Usenix security conference, security and computer vision specialists from the University of North Carolina presented a system that uses digital 3-D facial models based on publicly available photos and displayed with mobile virtual reality technology to defeat facial recognition systems. A VR-style face, rendered in three dimensions, gives the motion and depth cues that a security system is generally checking for. Their attack, which successfully spoofed four of the five systems they tried, is a reminder of the downside to authenticating your identity with biometrics.

Facial recognition is here to stay. What about facial distortion. No, not silly faces or angry faces posted on Instagram or Facebook.

As remarkable as the StyleGAN algorithm is, it leaves a number of "tells" in each image it creates. These vary from image to image — not every one has all or even many of these glitches — but with a bit of practice you can learn to spot them at a glance. We learned many of these tricks from the excellent tutorial published by Kyle McDonald in