From Snapchat face swap filters to U.S. President Joe Biden singing Baby Shark, manipulated media has proliferated in recent years. Deepfakes and other forms of synthetic and AI-assisted media manipulation are on the rise, and journalists tasked with sorting fact from fiction are forced to keep pace.In a recent ICFJ Empowering the Truth Global Summit session, ICFJ spoke with shirin anlen, a media technologist at WITNESS. WITNESS, a nonprofit that helps people use video and technology in support of human rights, runs a project called “Prepare, Don’t Panic,” focused on countering the malicious use of deepfakes and synthetic media, among other initiatives.
Origen: Understanding deepfakes and how to counter them | International Journalists’ Network
