When it comes to tracking these potentially problematic videos, one of the few organizations with data on deepfakes is Sensity, an Amsterdam-based company that employs deep learning and computer technologies to detect deepfakes.
to warn people of the advances in technology and how they could spread misinformation through misuse.
Sensity’s data only tracks incidents involving public figures. It doesn’t include incidents involving private individuals. However, hackers are faking more than just celebrities and politicians.Kyle Hawkins knows that all too well. He unwittingly entered the world of deepfakes when his social media accounts were hacked in February 2022.
“I got a message through Instagram from somebody who I was friends with on there who I assumed the same thing had happened to them, but I didn’t know,” Hawkins said. Hawkins said both his Instagram and his linked Facebook account were hacked, opening his followers to similar attacks. “It looks real, but they are sending it to people. They have made other ones, I think,” Hawkins said.
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