AI Can Convincingly Mimic A Person's Handwriting Style, Researchers Say
“We'll have to create public awareness and develop tools to combat forgery,” one of the researchers said.
The technology could help the injured to write without picking up a pen, but it also risks opening the door to mass forgeries and misuse.
Photographer: FreshSplash/E+Artificial intelligence tools already allow people to generate eerily convincing voice clones and deepfake videos. Soon, AI could also be used to mimic a person’s handwriting style.
Researchers at Abu Dhabi's Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) say they have developed technology that can imitate someone’s handwriting based on just a few paragraphs of written material. To accomplish that, the researchers used a transformer model, a type of neural network designed to learn context and meaning in sequential data.
The team at MBZUAI, which calls itself the world's first AI university, has been granted a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office for the artificial intelligence system.