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Tue Jun 25

Detecting deepfakes by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them

Written by Siwei Lyu, Professor of Computer Science; Director, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab, University at Albany, State University of New York

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Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting people doing and saying things they never did or said are a...

Detecting deepfakes by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them

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