Report warns AI can't offer protection from 'deepfakes'

Artificial intelligence-based solutions may not be able to save us from deceptively altered videos, known as deepfakes, according to a new report from Data and Society. In the report, authors Britt Paris and Joan Donovan put deepfakes on a long continuum of media manipulation and say that they require social and technical fixes. "The panic around deepfakes justifies quick technical solutions that don't address structural inequality," Paris told The Verge. "It's a massive project, but we need to find solutions that are social as well as political so people without power aren't left out of the equation." "The relationship between media and truth has never been stable," the report reads.