Researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with image processing and cybersecurity expertise have been awarded nearly $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to find out. They're designing an AI program they believe will need only a small number of deepfake examples to start to build its knowledge base. As it learns, the program will be able to spot new deepfake techniques, making more accurate detections and preventing mistakes in identifying content. Relying on a small number of examples overcomes the current challenges of algorithms that typically need a vast number of labeled samples to learn from. By leveraging accumulated knowledge, the deepfake detector will also learn to prevent camouflaged or obscured visual content from being classified as genuine content.