Yes yes something something this is inevitable therefore the galaxy brained thing is to be completely fine with how it's applied in an unfettered capitalistic system. Also something something if you're against this technology wrecking careers, reputations, and sometimes lives you might be too emotional and against Materialism(tm). :very-intelligent:
I clearly remember 2 images where one is a guy, the other has the exact some composition, face, clothes and everything, except with longer hair and feminine make up. Like if you choose the gender swap option in faceapp.
As for resolution, there was a website called "this person does not exist.com" or something that generates HD faces with great detail long before the stable diffusion business. The tech is not new.
I don't think all 1000 images are fake. Whether they are images from Xinjiang need to be proven but I believe they started with around 100 "real"(as in actual people photographed with cameras, I don't think they generated from scratch) images and used some process to "breed" or "multiply" them in order to have the 1000. There's no way all 1000 is real and all the glaring artifacts can't simply be explained away.
That site does 1024x1024 images, I think I remember concluding that the source photographs would have had to have been at least 2048 initially. And it does bear the usual suspects as far as artifacts go -- I can see incoherent backgrounds and I notice that light reflections on the eyes are very inconsistent and make no sense, as the most obvious ones.
I can tell you that if they had 100 real images, they'd have been better off making 1000 real images than attempting to finetune a face generator. But like I said, the images don't really prove anything of significance if they are authentic. They could be prisoner intake, or they could be state issued ID photos. So I'm not worried about it.