Deepfake-hunting A.I. could help strike back against the threat of fake news Digital Trends

Of all the A.I. tools to have emerged in recent years, very few have generated as much concern as deepfakes. A combination of "deep learning" and "fake," deepfake technology allows anyone to create images or videos in which photographic elements are convincingly superimposed onto other pictures. While some of the ways this tech has been showcased have been for entertainment (think superimposing Sylvester Stallone's face onto Arnie's body in Terminator 2), other use-cases have been more alarming. Deepfakes make possible everything from traumatizing and reputation-ruining "revenge porn" to misleading fake news. As a result, while a growing number of researchers have been working to make deepfake technology more realistic, others have been searching for ways to help us better distinguish between images and videos which are real and those that have been algorithmically doctored.