Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them

Social-media companies are concerned that deepfakes could soon flood their sites. But detecting them automatically is hard. To address the problem, Facebook wants to use AI to help fight back against AI-generated fakes. To train AIs to spot manipulated videos, it is releasing the largest ever data set of deepfakes --more than 100,000 clips produced using 3,426 actors and a range of existing face-swapping techniques. "Deepfakes are currently not a big issue," says Facebook's CTO, Mike Schroepfer.