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When you can’t trust your own eyes and ears to detect deepfakes, who can you trust? Perhaps, a machine. University of Florida researcher Damon Woodard is using artificial intelligence methods to develop algorithms that can detect deepfakes — images, text, video and audio that purports to be real but isn’t. These algorithms, Woodard says, are better at detecting deepfakes than humans.
Collage of a starry sky, overlayed with white, transluscent musical notes and thin green airwaves spanning the entire image.
How do you capture the sound of the stars? That was the challenge placed before composer Tina Tallon — for the score...