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Deepfakes: Big Tech Fights Back

Unsung Science

CBS News

Society & Culture, Earth Sciences, Science

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Deepfakes, those computer-generated videos of well-known people saying things they never actually said, strike a lot of experts as terrifying. If we can’t even trust videos we see online, how does democracy stand a chance?

As photo- and video-manipulation apps get cheaper and better, the rise of fake Obamas, Trumps, and Ukrainian presidents seemed unstoppable. But then a coalition of 750 camera, software, news, and social-media companies got together to embrace an ingenious way to shut the deepfakers down—not by detecting when videos are fake, but by offering proof that they’re real.

Guests: Dana Rao, chief counsel and executive vice president of Adobe.

Eric Horvitz, chief scientific officer, Microsoft.

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0:00.0

Deep fakes are phony videos of real people, generated by artificial intelligence software

0:10.1

to undermine our trust.

0:12.2

These days, deep fakes are so realistic that experts worry about what they'll do to

0:16.8

news and democracy.

0:18.3

We're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything

0:23.2

at any point in time.

0:25.0

It was all looking pretty hopeless until a counter-force gave together, made up of Adobe

0:30.6

and Microsoft and 900 of their closest corporate friends.

0:35.8

I'm David Pogue and this is Unsung Science.

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