Do you know how to spot deepfake videos?
According to the Social Media Safety Organization, deepfake technology first appeared in November 2017.
Some of you may remember the deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that went viral in 2022. The video showed the president asking soldiers to lay down their weapons. He then referred to fabricated false statements.
But as technology advances, fabricated videos are starting to look more and more authentic and can cause a lot of confusion.
James Turgal, Vice President of Cyber Risk at Optiv and former FBI cybersecurity expert, wrote in an email interview. Faster and smarter artificial intelligence algorithms take in this large amount of data (video in this case) and the algorithm learns what a particular face looks like from different angles, as if it were a mask. Move its face onto the target. . “
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So how can we tell the difference?
Turgal said there are some things to watch out for, including unnatural eye movements, lack of blinking, pixelation, and misaligned backgrounds.
However, with advances in artificial intelligence, some of these identifiers have become difficult to distinguish. Mr Turgal wrote to us in an email: “The use of generative AI only makes the ability to spot deepfakes more difficult, and there is also a growing movement to build tools that help detect synthetic people and media.”
The job of policing these videos is left to algorithms and specific platforms, he said, and it will ultimately be up to algorithms and humans to deny deepfakes.
Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also suggest paying attention to cheeks, forehead, eyeglass glare, facial moles, and lip movements.
It’s also important to pay attention to where the videos and information come from.
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