With algorithmically-generated fabricated videos, otherwise called deepfakes, on the rise, Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge. The contest — meant to develop technology for detecting deepfakes and prevent people from falling prey to misinformation — is expected to from late 2019 until spring of 2020. But training an algorithm to single out doctored videos isn’t an easy task, as it requires massive datasets of deepfakes. Which is why, the social media giant said it will use paid, consenting actors to create a library of deepfake videos in order to…
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