OpenAI releases ‘deepfake’ detector to disinformation researchers

A reception area at the headquarters of OpenAI in San Francisco. OpenAI is in May 2024 releasing to researchers a tool designed to detect content created by its own popular image generator, DALL-E, while acknowledges that this tool is only a small part of what will be needed to fight so-called deepfakes. — The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO: As experts warn that images, audio and video generated by artificial intelligence could influence the fall elections, OpenAI is releasing a tool designed to detect content created by its own popular image generator, DALL-E.

But the prominent AI startup acknowledges that this tool is only a small part of what will be needed to fight so-called deepfakes in the months and years to come.