What is Deepfake AI? Everything You Need to Know

According to Kaggle, determining manipulated media is a technical challenge that demands cross-industry collaboration. Research-driven initiatives have been circulating in recent years that aim to automatically detect various manifestations of deepfakes, which are often immensely hard for humans to identify. The DeepFake Detection Challenge (DFDC), a competition created by AWS, Microsoft, Facebook, the Partnership on AI, and academics, was run on Kaggle and offered a $1 million prize to global researchers who could develop innovative technologies to aid in detecting Deepfakes and manipulated media. It garnered over 2,000 participants and generated over 35,000 deepfake detection models. Detect Fakes is a MIT research initiative that strives to pinpoint methods to counteract AI-generated misinformation, and features videos that prompt participants to practice if they can discern a DeepFake from a real video.