The Rise of the Chatbots
How do we keep track of the truth when bots are becoming increasingly skilled liars?
The Rise of the Chatbots Read MoreDeepfake Detecting is the process of detecting deepfake media.
Deepfakes (a portmanteau of “deep learning” and “fake”) are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness. While the act of faking content is not new, deepfakes leverage powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to manipulate or generate visual and audio content with a high potential to deceive. The main machine learning methods used to create deepfakes are based on deep learning and involve training generative neural network architectures, such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks (GANs).
Deepfakes have garnered widespread attention for their uses in creating child sexual abuse material, celebrity pornographic videos, revenge porn, fake news, hoaxes, and financial fraud. This has elicited responses from both industry and government to detect and limit their use.
—Wikipedia, “Deepfake”
Deepfakes: Computer-generated content that purports to come from humans.
—Communications of the ACM, “The Rise of the Chatbots“
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