Deepfake detection with and without content warnings

The rapid advancement of ‘deepfake' video technology—which uses deep learning artificial intelligence algorithms to create fake videos that look real—has given urgency to the question of how policymakers and technology companies should moderate inauthentic content. We conduct an experiment to m...

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Published in:Royal Society open science 2023-11, Vol.10 (11), p.231214-231214
Main Authors: Lewis, Andrew, Vu, Patrick, Duch, Raymond M., Chowdhury, Areeq
Format: Article
Language:English
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deepfake
experiments
manual detection
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Summary:The rapid advancement of ‘deepfake' video technology—which uses deep learning artificial intelligence algorithms to create fake videos that look real—has given urgency to the question of how policymakers and technology companies should moderate inauthentic content. We conduct an experiment to measure people's alertness to and ability to detect a high-quality deepfake among a set of videos. First, we find that in a natural setting with no content warnings, individuals who are exposed to a deepfake video of neutral content are no more likely to detect anything out of the ordinary (32.9%) compared to a control group who viewed only authentic videos (34.1%). Second, we find that when individuals are given a warning that at least one video in a set of five is a deepfake, only 21.6% of respondents correctly identify the deepfake as the only inauthentic video, while the remainder erroneously select at least one genuine video as a deepfake.
ISSN:2054-5703
2054-5703
DOI:10.1098/rsos.231214