Hi everyone, it's Omna Navaz. Welcome to another episode of Settle In. Well, now that anyone in the

world who has a smartphone or a laptop can produce a hyper-realistic deep fake, how can you trust

anything you see or hear online? We're going to get into all of that today with an expert named

Hanee Farid. He's a professor at UC Berkeley. He focuses on digital forensics and

misinformation. He's also the chief science officer at Get Real Security. That's a company that

focuses on detecting deep fakes. We talked about how fast the technology has moved just over the last

20 years, how hard it is to spot something fake online, and also what

people in their everyday lives can be doing to protect themselves and also get better about

what's seeing what's real and what's not online. So settle in and enjoy my conversation with

Hanie Farid. Honey Farid, welcome to settle in.

Thank you so much for making the time.

It's great to be with you, Onna.

So we're going to talk about AI-generated images.

We're going to talk about digital forensics, about deepfakes.

You are, when people talk about you, they attach words like renowned expert and pioneer.

So I'm really excited to make sense of a very confusing world with you.

But before we get into all that, just tell me a little bit about you.

What led you into this line of work in the first place.

What's amazing about the work I do today here in 2006 in the world of AI and deep fakes and social media is we didn't really see this coming 25 years ago when I started my academic career. So I like to tell students I started my academic career in the previous millennium, which is in fact true. I started my career in 1999. And it's hard to remember 1999, but we largely lived in an analog world.

Digital cameras were still on the rise up.

Social media was non-existent.

Internet was burgeoning.

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