Facebook scientists create video software to make people invisible to facial recognition technology

Facebook has developed software to make people invisible to facial recognition technology. Its'de-identification' program is intended to protect people from'deepfake' style videos in which their faces can be edited onto videos of other people. These convincing clips are becoming so advanced it can be difficult to tell which videos are real and which ones are fake. And there are concerns that, in future, people will be able to make footage of others doing or saying things that they never actually did. But Facebook AI Research now says it has a way of fooling the artificial intelligence used to make these videos while still keeping the original video lifelike.