Edge Of AI Podcast

AI vs. AI In The Fight Against Deep Fakes, Feat. Joris Mollinga Of DuckDuckGoose

Aug 24, 2023

48:46

Any of you that have been involved with AI or been utilizing know that deepfakes are an ongoing issue, so we’re bringing in someone who can speak in detail about this topic. Joris Mollinga is the co-founder of Duck Duck Goose, a platform that offers advanced solutions to protect against deep fake videos and images. Duck Duck Goose is on a mission to detect deep fakes and filter out what to believe from what they perceive. It aims to realize a digital environment in which we can trust what we see. The emergence of deep fakes means that everything we see digitally can be manipulated. To ensure everyone's autonomy to determine what's true, they're developing insightful deep fake detection software. Tune in as Joris shares how they are exposing deep fakes and adding trust to this uncertain new AI world.

Key Takeaways:

Meet Joris Mollinga, an AI specialist and co-founder at DuckDuckGoose.
Learn about his journey from aerospace engineering to artificial intelligence.
Discover how DuckDuckGoose aims to create a trustworthy digital environment amidst the rise of manipulated content known as 'deep fakes'.
Understand their unique software that classifies images or videos as real or fake while providing insights on the classification process.
Explore how distrust in AI is growing due to phenomena like deep fakes.
Get insight into an 'AI vs AI battle' where generative AI creates/manipulates digital footage while systems like those developed by DuckDuckGoose identify whether it’s original or fabricated content.
Uncover who benefits most from deep fake detection products for digital identity verification.
Learn about potential applications across various industries including video conferencing and news media.
Delve into how selfies/videos are used as input for deep fake classification.

Quotes:

“Reality is never strange. We are the ones that are strange.” –Joris Mollinga
"Duck Duck Goose aims to realize a digital environment in which we can trust what we see. The emergence of deep fakes means that everything we see digitally can be manipulated." –Joris Mollinga
"The first gentleman that told me about ChatGPT was in November 2022. The thing that stuck with me is he said, 'In 90 days, everybody that touches the industry or is intact is going to be using and know about this. Ninety days after that, the whole world will know.'" –Ron Levy
"I have a couple of resources I like to share. As a student, I relied heavily upon a book called Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop, which was what we called the Bible of Machine Learning."

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