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Deepfakes and video

Synthetic faces and edited video: what people can and cannot spot by eye, how deepfake detectors work, and the conditions under which they fail.

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    How do I verify a viral video is real before my newsroom runs it?

    Photo editor at a mid-sized daily here. Our verification workflow for stills is mature: reverse image search, metadata when we have the original, geolocation...

    Deepfakes and videoMarco FerriAnswered
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    Can people reliably spot an AI-generated face just by looking?

    No. In controlled experiments, people shown modern AI-generated faces did no better than chance at telling them apart from photographs of real people, and they...

    Deepfakes and videoTomas ReyesStaff answer
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