The Growing Threat of Deep Fakes

Deep fakes, powered by AI, are becoming increasingly realistic and difficult to differentiate from reality. The speaker highlights the challenges of verifying authenticity in a world where voice, video, images, and text messages can all be convincingly faked. There is a need for improved media literacy and detection skills to protect against deep fakes, particularly in the hands of journalists and human rights defenders. However, current detection tools have limitations and often don't work well on low-quality social media content. The future requires structural solutions to fortify credibility and increase detection accuracy.