How to spot deepfakes

Chapter 1

Anatomy of a deepfake

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Chapter 2

Audio and speech deception

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Chapter 3

The digital detective toolkit

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Ch 1 · Anatomy of a deepfake

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Are the shadows kinda weird, oh-oh? AI's hand has interfered!

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Shadows and reflections

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Fun Fact

Missing teeth glitch: Early AI face generators struggled to render individual teeth, often creating a single, solid white block or an extra row of teeth.

The telltale blink

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Glossary

deepfake (noun)
An image, video, or audio recording that has been digitally altered or generated using artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic a real person. The technology emerged in 2017 when an anonymous Reddit user posted highly realistic, AI-manipulated videos.

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What is a common visual error in the pupils of deepfake subjects?

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Would you use deepfake tech to put yourself in a movie?

Tricky Trinkets

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Why did early deepfakes rarely feature natural blinking?

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Which part of the face is a common site for 'stitching' errors in deepfake videos?

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Which physical facial asymmetry do deepfake generators often accidentally erase?

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What does the 'GAN' in GAN technology stand for?

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How does AI face generation often handle jewelry like earrings?

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In what year did researchers first publish the concept of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)?

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What is the role of the 'discriminator' in a GAN system?