As part of the project, Facebook is commissioning researchers to produce realistic deepfakes to create a data set for testing detection tools. — Reuters
Facebook Inc is teaming up with Microsoft Corp, the Partnership on AI coalition and academics from several universities to launch a contest to better detect deepfakes, the company said in a blog post on Sept 5.
The social media giant is putting US$10mil (RM41.77mil) into the "Deepfake Detection Challenge", which aims to spur detection research. As part of the project, Facebook is commissioning researchers to produce realistic deepfakes to create a data set for testing detection tools.
