I think the "trustworthiness" dimension can be a little questionable. The Discussion section does bring this up - "This may be because synthesized faces tend to

I think the "trustworthiness" dimension can be a little questionable. The Discussion section does bring this up - "This may be because synthesized faces tend to look more like average faces which themselves are deemed more trustworthy". In a sense, the model produces faces with less detail (or "average" looking faces). However, if you look at all the faces, they are "high quality" headshots. Would generated faces of, say, mugshots still produce higher levels of "trustworthiness"? Not to place any type of judgement on the individuals with a mugshot, but you would be generating a vastly different type of face.