Detecting and Designing Deepfakes

Deepfakes have emerged as an intriguing yet polarizing artform over the past few years. The digital manipulation of ones face on another person can create for a strikingly realistic portrayal of that person. It is a unique tool that has been used in movies, social media and in the news. It is important to understand how to identify what is a Deepfake in order to not be fooled by harmful false information that can be abused by this system. There are a handful of ways to detect a deepfake and one of the ways is to look for an evidence of splicing. Usually when people will make a deceptive…