“With great power…” I’m pleased to see some of my collaborators in augmented reality working to help fight deceptive content:
To make this dataset, over the past year we worked with paid and consenting actors to record hundreds of videos. Using publicly available deepfake generation methods, we then created thousands of deepfakes from these videos. The resulting videos, real and fake, comprise our contribution, which we created to directly support deepfake detection efforts. As part of the FaceForensics benchmark, this dataset is now available, free to the research community, for use in developing synthetic video detection methods.
I recall after one of Hany Farid’s lectures, somebody congratulated him on solving the problem of detecting faked images.
Farid laughed, and said “Oh I haven’t solved the problem…I’ve just started an arms race.”