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Facebook Scientists Claim They Can Now Reverse-Engineer Deepfakes

Ian Haworth
Facebook Scientists Claim They Can Now Reverse-Engineer Deepfakes
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On Wednesday, researchers at Facebook — “in partnership with Michigan State University (MSU)” — presented a “research method of detecting and attributing deepfakes that relies on reverse engineering from a single AI-generated image to the generative model used to produce it.” In other words, Facebook has developed the ability to determine where so-called “deepfake” videos “in real-world settings” have come from, when the “deepfake image itself is often the only information detectors have to work with.”

As CNBC explained, “Deepfakes are videos that have been digitally altered in some way with AI.”

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