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Examining a video's changes over time helps flag deepfakes

  • Written by Wael Abd-Almageed, Research Team Lead and Senior Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Big changes from one frame to the next can signal trouble.Jesse Milan/Flickr, CC BY

It used to be that only Hollywood production companies with deep pockets and teams of skilled artists and technicians could make deepfake videos, realistic fabrications appearing to show people doing and saying things they never actually did or said. Not anymore...

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