Detecting deepfakes by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them
Published Date: 6/26/2019
Source: phys.org
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 fundamental threat to the longstanding idea that "seeing is believing." Not anymore.