Improving the detection of deepfakes
Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation SPRIN-D.
Angela Merkel is chatting with Vladimir Putin in a beer garden. The Pope is a DJ at a mixing desk. Tom Cruise is locked in an embrace with Paris Hilton. These images are circulating on the Internet and receive millions of clicks, but they are very realistic fakes known as deepfakes. “Deepfake generators are becoming more and more powerful and are also readily accessible,” says PD Dr. Christian Riess, Head of the Multimedia Security research group at the Chair of Computer Science 1 (IT Security Infrastructures). “This means images and videos with manipulated contents are being spread very quickly and they seem increasingly genuine.” At best, they are just entertaining. However, the fakes can cause political and social controversy if they are not detected as such. Read more …