I've Studied Deepfakes for 2 Decades. AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible for You to Know What's Real.
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More than a quarter of a century ago, when Hany Farid began researching digital forensics, the idea that artificial intelligence could create near-perfect fake images of people seemed like science fiction. Today, he is considered one of the world's leading experts in detecting digital manipulation, and his message is alarming: the average internet user can no longer reliably distinguish between the real and the artificial.
I've studied deepfakes for 2 decades. AI is making it nearly impossible for you to know what's real.
Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert, said AI has become increasingly effective at making realistic clips and photos.Courtesy GetRealHany Farid started studying digital forensics in 1999 when the field barely existed.Farid said detecting AI has become nearly impossible for ordinary people to identify by sight alone.What scares him most is that people are no longer disagreeing over ideas but over what's real.This as-told-to essay is based on a …
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