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Microsoft strengthens deepfake fight with new authentication tools – ZDNet
The company announced two new technologies to combat disinformation as well as new work to help educate the public about the problem, including through a quiz.
In an effort to combat the prevalence of deepfakes, Microsoft has launched a new video authenticator tool, which can analyse a still photo or video to provide a percentage of the chance that a piece of media is artificially manipulated.
In the case of a video, Microsoft said it could provide this percentage in real time for each frame as the video plays. It works by detecting the blending boundary of the deepfake and subtle fading or greyscale elements that might not be detectable by the human …
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