Study Suggests Deepfakes Fool Top Facial Recognition Tech
VentureBeat reports that, “in a paper published on the preprint server Arvix.org, researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, South Korea demonstrate that APIs from Microsoft and Amazon can be fooled with commonly used deepfake-generating methods.” More specifically, Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive Services “was fooled by up to 78 percent of the deepfakes the coauthors fed it.”
Amazon Rekognition mistook a deepfake for a celebrity 68.7 percent of the time. The researchers concluded that its study “can shed light on better designing robust web-based APIs, as well as appropriate defense mechanisms, which are urgently needed to fight against malicious use of deepfakes.”
The researchers also warned that, “voice and video deepfake technologies can be combined to create multimodal deepfakes and used to carry out more powerful and realistic phishing attacks … [and] if the commercial APIs fail to filter the deepfakes on social media, it will allow the propagation of false information and harm innocent individuals.”
See the full story here: https://www.etcentric.org/study-suggests-deepfakes-fool-top-facial-recognition-tech/
and here: https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/05/study-warns-deepfakes-can-fool-facial-recognition/
