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June 12, 2020 03:20 pm

Facebook contest reveals deepfake detection is still an unsolved problem




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Facebook has announced the results of its first Deepfake Detection Challenge, an open competition to find algorithms that can spot AI-manipulated videos. The results, while promising, show there’s still lots of work to be done before automated systems can reliably spot deepfake content, with researchers describing the issue as an “unsolved problem.”


Facebook says the winning algorithm in the contest was able to spot “challenging real world examples” of deepfakes with an average accuracy of 65.18 percent. That’s not bad, but it’s not the sort of hit-rate you would want for any automated system.


Deepfakes have proven to be something of an exaggerated menace for social media. Although the technology prompted much handwringing about the...



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