AI vs. AI: The Race to Generate, Share, and Detect Deepfakes

Artificial intelligence, which can generate astonishingly realistic false images and videos, is increasingly being used to detect them. Distinguishing between fact and fakery has become an everyday part of our online lives. During the U.S. election campaign, a manipulated video appearing to show Joe Biden forget which state he was in went viral, receiving more than a million views before it was debunked. The doctoring of visual material for political mischief-making is nothing new. Josef Stalin notoriously erased undesirable companions from photographs during the Great Purge in 1930s Russia.