Facebook, Microsoft and academic institutions announce Deepfake Detection Challenge
Facebook Inc is teaming up with Microsoft Corp, the Partnership on AI coalition and academics from several universities to launch a contest to better detect deepfakes, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The social media giant is putting $10 million into the “Deepfake Detection Challenge,” which aims to spur detection research. If I design a detection for deepfakes, I’m giving the attacker a new discriminator to test against," said Siddharth Garg, an assistant professor of computer engineering at New York University’s Tandon School. The Deepfake Detection Challenge is not the first time that Facebook, which does not currently have a specific policy regarding deepfake videos, has funded academic research into the threat. One of these teams, run by UC Berkeley Professor Hany Farid, is building “soft biometric models,” which map real politicians’ facial quirks, from Senator Bernie Sanders’ eyebrow jumps to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s head turns, to detect if a new video is fake.
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