LibGuides: Fake News: Deepfakes

Deepfakes: Is This Video Even Real?

Introduction to Deepfakes

What are Deepfakes – and How Can You Spot Them?
AI-generated fake videos are becoming more common (and convincing). Here’s why we should be worried.
When Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Inside the Pentagon's Race Against Deepfake Videos
This Interactive article demonstrates advances in artificial intelligence that could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.

DeepSteaks

Real World Examples of Deepfakes

The People Onscreen are Fake. The Disinformation is Real.
The two broadcasters, purportedly anchors for a news outlet called Wolf News, are not real people. They are computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software. And late last year, videos of them were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance of “deepfake” video technology being used to create fictitious people as part of a state-aligned information campaign.
Misinformation About the Israel-Hamas War is Flooding Social Media. Here are the Facts
In the days since Hamas militants stormed into Israel early Oct. 7, a flood of deepfake videos and photos purporting to show the conflict have filled social media, making it difficult for onlookers from around the world to sort fact from fiction.

Research on Deepfakes

Deepfakes: Deceptions, Mitigations, and Opportunities

Deepfakes—artificial but hyper-realistic video, audio, and images created by algorithms—are one of the latest technological developments in artificial intelligence.

Congressional Report: Deep Fakes and National Security

“Deep fakes”—a term that first emerged in 2017 to describe
realistic photo, audio, video, and other forgeries generated
with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies—could present
a variety of national security challenges in the years to
come.

Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, and Disinformation

Click the PDF button to access the article. This article reviews the technology undergirding deepfakes and associated artificial intelligence (AI)–driven technologies that provide the foundation for deepfake videos, voice cloning, deepfake images, and generative text.

Are You Able to Detect Deepfakes?

Detect Fakes from MIT Media Lab