Facebook can now detect 'the most dangerous crime of the future' and the AI used to make them

Facebook has developed a model to tell when a video is using a deepfake – and can even tell which algorithm was used to create it. The term "deepfake" refers to a video where artificial intelligence and deep learning – an algorithmic learning method used to train computers – has been used to make a person appear to say something they have not. Notable examples of deepfakes include a manipulated video of Richard Nixon's Apollo 11 presidential address and Barack Obama insulting Donald Trump – and although they are relatively benign now, experts suggest that they could be the most dangerous crime of the future. Detecting a deepfake relies on telling whether an image is real or not, but the amount of information available to researchers to do so can be limited – relying on potential input-output pairs or rely on hardware information that might not be available in the real world. Facebook's new process relies in detecting the unique patterns behind an artificially-intelligent model that could generate a deepfake.