The MNW benchmark pulls from more sources and will be updated regularly ...

Microsoft, Northwestern University, and non-profit Witness have created the Microsoft-Northwestern-Witness (MNW) benchmark, a dataset of diverse AI-generated media designed to improve deepfake ...

As synthetic audio continues to improve, it's also getting harder for anti-spoofing models to accurately detect. That's according to recent research published on June 1 by a team of researchers at ...

Northwestern University researchers have launched a new, easy-to-use platform for detecting deepfakes, which now is available to a limited number of verified journalists. Called the Global Online ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When misleading information spreads online, it can spread fast. Yet many of the best tools for swiftly debunking viral photographs, videos and audio are only available to researchers, ...

The 9th FinVolution Global Data Science Competition targets deepfake speech detection, tackling the challenge of distinguishing between cloned and authentic voices in the LLM era. The contest is part ...

PCWorld demonstrates that deepfake detection tools frequently fail to identify AI-generated content, with some misclassifying an obvious TikTok deepfake as real. Manual observation and skepticism ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...

The threat of deepfakes is growing as the AI tools to create them become widely accessible. There was a 245% increase in deepfakes worldwide from 2023 to 2024, an uptick spurred in part by coming ...

The tool, which requires a celebrity to upload a digital replica, will flag potentially infringing content - like, say, a star playing a role in fan-generated movie - for a possible takedown.