Facebook launches $10m deepfake detection project

If you're worried about the malevolent potential of deepfake video, you're not alone – so is Facebook. The company has launched a project to sniff out deepfake videos, and it's pledging more than $10m to the cause. It has pulled in a range of partners including Microsoft for help. Deepfakes are videos that use AI to superimpose one person's face on another. They work using generative adversarial networks (GANs), which are battling neural networks.