# How internet companies are preparing to fight the ‘deepfake’ future

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/how-internet-companies-are-preparing-to-fight-the-deepfake-future/
- Published: 2019-12-02T09:45:07-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption:  A collage of deepfake images being used to train machines. (Google via The New York Times) By Cade Metz Several months ago, Google hired dozens of actors to sit at a table, stand in a hallway and walk down a street while talking into a video camera. Then the company’s researchers, using a new kind of artificial intelligence software, swapped the faces of the actors. People who had been walking were suddenly at a table. The actors who had been in a hallway looked like they were on a street. Men’s faces were put on women’s bodies. Women’s faces were put on men’s bodies. In time, the researchers had created hundreds of so-called deepfake videos. By creating these digitally manipulated videos, Google’s scientists believe they are learning how to spot deepfakes, which researchers and lawmakers worry could become a new, insidious method for spreading disinformation in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. […] Click here to view original web page at indianexpress.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio