Effective Solutions for Deepfake Issues

The problems raised by deepfakes have been pointed out by many wise scholars but solutions for solving these issues are still under the research phase. Some of the possible way to control deepfake issues are drafting a strict law, technological approach and media literacy.

Legislative Solutions

The Lady Justice with her blindfolded eye, balance scales and sword

Currently, there are many loop holes in the laws that do not address the whole issues of deepfakes. Without strict laws and legislations, it is impossible to tackle the issues raised by deepfakes. Creation of deepfakes should be allow only for benefit of humankind and society. Even though some states and countries have enforced laws prohibiting the sharing of deepfakes publicly, it don’t address the whole issue of deepfakes across globally. 

Technological Approach

Images of Real Human Eyes and Synthesized GAN Human Eyes

Another approach of detecting deepfakes is the use of advanced artificial intelligence itself. Researchers at the Albany University have discovered one such tool to detect deepfakes is by examining the eye blinking rate. The suspected images or videos are passed through diagnosis tools like Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks  or  Convolutional Neural Networks. Both LRCN and CNN are artificial intelligence neural network applications, created based on human neuron concepts. During the scanning process, we scan only the changing behavior during eye blinking, as it is considered to be the most convincing object to scan for more reliable detection. The other objects like cheek, foreheads, nose etc. hardly change their skin tone and behaviors in each frame of the videos and also the process of scanning whole face consume a lot of memory and time. So it is not a good idea to scan the whole image or video.

Media Literacy

Media Literacy

 Since, we don’t have any ultimate solutions to tackle the issues created by deepfake either through technologically or legislatively, we can at least tell people about deepfakes and its implications both pros and cons. Although public cannot spot the deepfakes by watching the contents, they can at least figure out where the source is coming from. So, public education about deepfakes is one of the most efficient tool for dealing with deepfakes problems.