Facebook, Microsoft and the Partnership on AI Form the Deepfake Detection Challenge

Academics from several universities will help develop technology to sniff out altered videos

Imitation is the sincerest form of … prevention?

Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer said in a blog post this week that the social network is taking steps to combat deepfakes, with some highly qualified assistance.

Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft, the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society and academics from Cornell Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, University of California-Berkeley, the University of Maryland-College Park and the University at Albany-State University of New York on the Deepfake Detection Challenge.

The goal of the Deepfake Detection Challenge is to develop technology to better detect when AI was used to alter videos and mislead viewers.

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