4.3 Accurate Perception of AI Avatar

The Synthesia avatar program produced highly effective simulacra of human presenters. Half of respondents (50%) incorrectly identified their synthetic avatar as being an organic human spokesperson, with yet another 11 percent unsure. Only 38 percent of respondents correctly identified the avatar as synthetic (see Table 5). H3 was proven true.
While a sizeable number of respondents also either incorrectly identified or were unsure that their human spokesperson was an organic spokesperson, a portion of that mistaken attribution may be attributed to skepticism provoked by the question itself. Participants were not informed that their video may be AI-generated until the question at the end of the survey implicitly suggested it. Some may, at that time, have retroactively been suspicious of their human spokesperson, accounting for some of the incorrectness. That same suspicion may have actually inflated correct answers for synthetic avatar videos, potentially making the effectiveness of the dupe even great.