Data Tech

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) are making it shockingly easy to produce manipulated images and videos that appear nearly indistinguishable from authentic ones. While there will be many beneficial applications of this technology, it has already been used in some very harmful ways, and it threatens to have big implications for our personal lives, the legal system, politics, etc. In this talk, I will give an overview of DARPA’s Media Forensics (MediFor) Project, which is developing new machine learning algorithms to detect manipulations in images and video, and I will highlight some of my team’s recent work for this project.