Producing handwriting is a problem a group of people I belong to is facing. We work (free, on our free time), detecting forgeried signatures of a celebrity on eBay (forgeries that can go to thousdans of dollars).
Forgers are not good imitating signatures, but they discovered how to create the celebrity handwriting using an autopen, which means is harder everyday to distinguish real ones from fake ones. Collectors are used to them - and we track eBay sellers, buyers, etc, so we have an idea of who is who, but people who just want to buy a signed book for a birthday present, may end paying thousdans of dollars but something fake that has no value.
I see the importance of projects like this, but in the other hand, I cant help thinking that every piece of tech that imitates human behaviour can be used for bad.
Forgers are not good imitating signatures, but they discovered how to create the celebrity handwriting using an autopen, which means is harder everyday to distinguish real ones from fake ones. Collectors are used to them - and we track eBay sellers, buyers, etc, so we have an idea of who is who, but people who just want to buy a signed book for a birthday present, may end paying thousdans of dollars but something fake that has no value.
I see the importance of projects like this, but in the other hand, I cant help thinking that every piece of tech that imitates human behaviour can be used for bad.