Adobe Has Created An AI Tool That Can Detect Deepfakes

At an age when we see manipulated photos as well as deepfakes and even fake human faces everywhere, Adobe states that it’s developing an AI tool that can detect fake images. Adobe, following the ethical implications of Photoshop, has formed a partnership with researchers at the Berkeley-based University of California to address this problem.

According to the company, people are using Face Aware Liquify in Photoshop to change facial expressions on people’s faces. Its Friday blog post said that fake content is an increasingly serious problem, adding that it would use artificial intelligence to improve trust issue in digital media.

Researchers from Berkeley and Adobe have developed a new way to spot and delete edits on images.

Their tool had a 99 percent success rate regarding spotting altered faces while human eyes could only spot 53 percent of the time, as revealed by Adobe. In addition, the tool could revert the edited images to their original state.

However, the pair are still in the early stage of developing this tool.

Richard Zhang, a researcher at Adobe said:

Nowadays, manipulated videos and images are all over the Internet. On Friday, for example, Jon Snow posted a video apologizing for GOT season 8, or Thursday reports saying that a spy opened a fake LinkedIn account, profiled with an AI-generated image to connect with Washington-based political figures.

Video forgeries, also known as deepfakes that make people look like they do or say things that they don’t, are created with software like Photoshop using bogus images to generate moving pictures. With the development of deepfake software, manipulated videos are getting more accessible but harder to detect. The technique makes users able to create deepfakes with just one image, like the Mona Lisa.

Congress wants to have an investigation into deepfakes after manipulated videos of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi surfaced and due to concerns over the escalation of deepfakes which may lead to fake news in the US presidential race next year.

Besides Adobe’s tool to spot doctored photos, researchers are also developing a tool to spot deepfakes of leaders through creating fake images of their unique manners when speaking.