How Do You Spot a DeepFake?
Unless you are an Artificial Intelligence algorithm, it is very difficult to spot a DeepFake! However, you can still do it if you look closely as they are fake after all. The most common sign is that the ears, teeth, and eyes of the person do not match the face outline sometimes. Lip syncing in the video may also be wrong and it is very difficult to create individual strands of hair in DeepFakes. And if the face appears too smooth to be real, chances are it’s not real but a DeepFake.
However, it is getting more and more difficult to spot DeepFakes as they are looking more and more real with advances in technology. In such a situation, only Artificial Intelligence can recognize the use of Artificial Intelligence in photos and videos. Almost all big tech companies are investing in creating technology that can identify DeepFakes.
One of the biggest efforts in this is the Deepfake Detection Challenge by Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook which aims to identify fake content on the internet (which is getting more and more difficult to do!) Hopefully, all these measures will be enough to spot DeepFakes in the future. Otherwise, there may come a time when funny videos about Jon Snow would be the least of the DeepFake problems in this world. And even international catastrophes may happen because of the fake news spread by DeepFakes.
What Are DeepFakes And How Dangerous Are They?
Did you hate the last season of Game of Thrones? Most probably! Did you also watch the online video of Jon Snow saying sorry for the horrible script of season 8? That video obviously wasn’t a real video as Jon Snow knows nothing! It was actually a fake but it looked so real. That’s because it was a DeepFake video made using Artificial Intelligence. Are you wondering what DeepFake is? Let’s check it out! DeepFake uses Deep Learning, a subset of Machine Learning, to create videos that look real but are actually fake. It is basically a technology that can replace the face of a person in an image or a video with so much precision that it looks real. Or it can make a person say something on a video that they never actually said in real life. “What you see is what you get” is no longer true on the internet because of DeepFakes. And that is how you can see Jon Snow blaming the last season of Game of Thrones when this never actually happened!
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