We live in an era where anyone can swap their faces with leading actors in famous movies like the Star Wars sequels using deepfake technology. These deepfake videos or faces can even be done on your mobile phones.
Deepfakes are a type of disinformation which is manipulated information that aims to influence your opinion. Deepfake technology has become incredibly accessible and the number of applications is numerous, including real-time deepfake detection and audio-based deepfake detection. But this also makes abuse more accessible, which is why we created our deepfake detection software.
The face of the donor file is copied and pasted, it mimics the emotions and motions of the source file.
Generated faces by a neural network that learned with a big dataset to create new unique faces.
The person in the source file mimics the emotions and motions of the donor file.
What can you do to protect yourself from being a victim of deepfake attacks or being influenced by them?
Deepfakes are becoming higher in quality while being easier and cheaper to make. It consequently becomes harder to spot deepfakes with the naked eye. However, at this moment you can still look for several typical graphic inconsistencies (called artefacts) in deepfakes, the typical artefacts to look for are listed below.
Does the footage spark an emotional response for you? Disinformation often tends to influence your opinion and does frequently do so by sparking negative emotions regarding specific people. Do you react emotionally to the footage? Stay calm and check the information more closely. By thinking critically one could potentially question the footage on its authenticity.
There are several fact checking websites like Snopes and Bellingcat that you can visit for free. For faceswap and neural puppetry deepfakes a source file is needed to create the deepfake. If in doubt, you can reverse image or video search the image or video. And, of course, you can always request a demo version of our online tool, DeepDetector!