Now, scientists have created an AI that can imitate human handwriting, which could herald fresh issues regarding fraud and fake documents.  

Amazingly, the results are almost indistinguishable from the real thing drafted by human hands.

Below is one column of writing by the team's AI model and another by humans, but can you tell which is which? 

Scroll down to reveal the answer!  

If you guessed that the left column was written by AI and the right column by a human ... you are correct!

The right column is a sample of handwriting by six different human writers that the team's AI was trained with. 

Meanwhile the left column is the imitations of each person's handwriting by the new AI, called HWT. 

HWT was developed by scientists at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi.

According to the experts, the 'handwriting' generated by HWT looks much more realistic than other existing AIs and would be preferable to use. 

In their study, they showed the fake text from HWT and two other handwriting generation technologies to 100 people and asked which one they preferred. 

The results revealed that participants in preferred HWT to the other text generators 81 per cent of the time.

What's more, the participants could not distinguish the mimicked handwriting from the actual handwriting.