Ai Editorial: Detecting deepfakes to combat identify fraud - Ai

Ai Editorial: Deepfakes supported by AI techniques today are considered to be a growing problem. It is vital to build AI systems that can automated deepfake detection so that risks such as identity fraud can be tackled, writes Ai's Ritesh Gupta Artificial intelligence (AI)-based identity fraud is emerging as a serious issue. Recognition of one's voices and face as a way to validate a person's identity is under scrutiny with the rise of synthetic media and deepfakes. Be it for security-related risks, user privacy concerns or fraudulent transactions, repercussions are being probed at this juncture. Technology to manipulate images, videos and audio files is progressing faster than one's ability to tell what's real from what's been faked.