A pair of researchers, one with Gymnasium of Johannes Kepler, the other with the University of California, Berkley, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) application capable of determining whether a video clip of a famous person is genuine or a deepfake. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Matyáš Boháček and Hany Farid describe training their AI system to recognize unique body movements of certain individuals to discern whether a video was real or not. As deepfake technology has grown more sophisticated, it has become more difficult to determine whether a video is genuine. In the realm of public figures, such videos can become problematic. Such was the case when parties in Russia created a recent deepfake video of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying things that he did not actually say--a video that was reportedly created to help the Russian government convince its citizenry of Russian state propaganda regarding the invasion of Ukraine.

If AI-generated'deepfake' videos are going to spread like wildfire and cause social chaos in the future, it's probably going to happen on Facebook… The aim is to create tech that everyone can use to detect when a video has been manipulated with AI. However, to do that, it needs to have a larger dataset of deepfake content to work with, and so far the industry doesn't have it or a benchmark for detecting deepfakes, according to Facebook. Our FREE Tools can help! What else can we do to fight these fake videos?