Interesting News: Open-Source Protective Filter

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According to Forensic Magazine, consumers of media content today face a number of challenges in determining the trustworthiness of the information they find online, particularly with the new phenomena of deepfakes.

Questions:

  1. Has this been used yet to perpetrate a financial fraud?
  2. Can you think of a way that it could be used for fraud purposes?
  3. What has a team of Boston University computer scientists developed in order to combat deepfakes?
  4. What does the team plan to do with the algorithm developed?
  5. Has this ever been used for good purposes? (in video)

Source:

Staff (2020). Protective Filter Defends Images and Video Against Deepfake Manipulation., July 13 (Retrievable at https://www.forensicmag.com/566207-Protective-Filter-Defends-Images-and-Video-against-Deepfake-Manipulation/ )