AI-generated images, video and audio are getting more refined by the day (Picture: Getty)

Some of the faces you see on social media, of the bands whose music you listen to and the ones selling you products aren’t of real people.

They don’t even exist.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can create images so realistic that people have fallen for scams and even fallen in love .

Knowing how to tell these phoney people apart is becoming an increasingly invaluable skill – and it’s one nearly half of us lack.

A new study, published in The Royal Society , showed that people can only spot an AI-generated face a third of the time.

One of the faces shown to study participants – is it AI-generated? (Picture: Gray Katie L. H. et al)

The 664 participants did manage to get the answer corr

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