{"id":565910,"date":"2021-06-16T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565910"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:52:19","slug":"facebook-scientists-claim-they-can-now-reverse-engineer-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-scientists-claim-they-can-now-reverse-engineer-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Scientists Claim They Can Now Reverse-Engineer Deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-scientists-claim-they-can-now-reverse-engineer-deepfakes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1090433882-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, researchers at Facebook \u2014 \u201cin partnership with Michigan State University (MSU)\u201d \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ai.facebook.com\/blog\/reverse-engineering-generative-model-from-a-single-deepfake-image\"><span>presented<\/span><\/a><span> a \u201cresearch method of detecting and attributing deepfakes that relies on reverse engineering from a single AI-generated image to the generative model used to produce it.\u201d In other words, Facebook has developed the ability to determine where so-called \u201cdeepfake\u201d videos \u201cin real-world settings\u201d have come from, when the \u201cdeepfake image itself is often the only information detectors have to work with.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/16\/facebook-scientists-say-they-can-tell-where-deepfakes-come-from.html\">CNBC<\/a> explained, \u201cDeepfakes are videos that have been digitally altered in some way with AI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey\u2019ve become <\/span><span>increasingly realistic<\/span><span> in recent years, making it harder for humans to determine what\u2019s real on the internet, and indeed Facebook, and what\u2019s not,\u201d CNBC continued. \u201cThe Facebook researchers claim that their AI software \u2014 announced on Wednesday \u2014 can be trained to establish if a piece of media is a deepfake or not from a still image or a single video frame. Not only that, they say the software can also identify the AI that was used to create the deepfake in the first place, no matter how novel the technique.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDeepfakes have become so believable in recent years that it can be difficult to tell them apart from real images. As they become more convincing, it\u2019s important to expand our understanding of deepfakes and where they come from,\u201d said Facebook in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/06\/detecting-the-models-behind-deepfakes\/\"><span>blog post<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cIn collaboration with researchers at Michigan State University (MSU), we\u2019ve developed a method of detecting and attributing deepfakes. It relies on reverse engineering, working back from a single AI-generated image to the generative model used to produce it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Facebook then explained that much of the scientific community\u2019s focus has been on detecting deepfakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBeyond detecting deepfakes, researchers are also able to perform what\u2019s known as image attribution, that is, determining what particular generative model was used to produce a deepfake,\u201d Facebook continued. \u201cImage attribution can identify a deepfake\u2019s generative model if it was one of a limited number of generative models seen during training. But the vast majority of deepfakes \u2014 an infinite number \u2014 will have been created by models not seen during training. During image attribution, those deepfakes are flagged as having been produced by unknown models, and nothing more is known about where they came from, or how they were produced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Facebook then claimed that their \u201creverse engineering method takes image attribution a step further by helping to deduce information about a particular generative model just based on the deepfakes it produces,\u201d and that this represents \u201cthe first time that researchers have been able to identify properties of a model used to create a deepfake without any prior knowledge of the model.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThrough this groundbreaking model parsing technique, researchers will now be able to obtain more information about the model used to produce particular deepfakes. Our method will be especially useful in real-world settings where the only information deepfake detectors have at their disposal is often the deepfake itself,\u201d Facebook concluded. \u201cIn some cases, researchers may even be able to use it to tell whether certain deepfakes originate from the same model, regardless of differences in their outward appearance or where they show up online.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One example of impactful deepfakes is \u201ca <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@deeptomcruise?\"><span>set of hyper-realistic and bizarre Tom Cruise deepfakes<\/span><\/a><span> on TikTok\u201d which \u201chave now been watched over 50 million times, with many struggling to see how they\u2019re not real.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday, it\u2019s possible for anyone to make their own deepfakes using free apps like FakeApp or Faceswap,\u201d added CNBC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, researchers at Facebook \u2014 \u201cin partnership with Michigan State University (MSU)\u201d \u2014 presented a \u201cresearch method of detecting and attributing deepfakes that relies on reverse engineering from a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280486,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1090433882-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Facebook Scientists Claim They Can Now Reverse-Engineer Deepfakes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1090433882-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Facebook Scientists Claim They Can Now Reverse-Engineer Deepfakes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}