Using AI to fight fake news

Donald Staar from VeriFlix explains how machine learning is enabling rapid authentication and verification of user-generated video clips to help combat fake news. It's not fake news that something must be done to stop the spread of false information in our media streams. Multiple efforts have been made to rectify the problem, including methods that detect doctoring in pre-existing videos. Inherently that's a hard problem to solve, as everyday hackers find new ways to edit content in nearly invisible ways. Left up to technology to identify, this creates a cat and mouse game where we're constantly on the defence, training computers to spot only known hacks until the next one is discovered.