AI-powered deepfake detection tool released by non-profit [Video]

(NewsNation) — A new app designed to fight what a computer scientist calls “disinformation terrorism” is now available to whoever wants it.

TrueMedia, a nonpartisan nonprofit in Seattle, has released its AI-powered deepfake detection as it aims to combat the spread of disinformation ahead of the upcoming elections.

“We combine the power of multiple deepfake detectors from industry and academia to ensure more accurate results,” says the TrueMedia website. “Our in-house data scientists continuously improve our baseline of approximately 90% accuracy,” it claims.

On the TrueMedia website, you paste in the URL of a suspect image, and the collection of several deepfake detectors inspect it and decides.

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Oren Etzioni, a longtime computer scientist and AI specialist who founded TrueMedia, said that everyone must have the means to verify the authenticity of what they encounter online.

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