Deepfakes are part of the reason I’m afraid of AI. What should the rest of us do if this technology can fool news organizations? Deepfakes could potentially do some real damage to our videoconferencing technology. Or so we thought. Intel is working on something called FakeCatcher that can identify a deepfake because it can identify blood flow. Read more here in this column from Bob Snyder.
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Whether in videos or in a videoconference, deepfakes discombobulate our perception of what is real. They have the potential to cripple our faith in person-to-person video calls. They will certainly jeopardize corporate and enterprise communications; this is a new and urgent item on the cybersecurity list. All that said, Intel claims to have the solution: FakeCatcher, the world’s first real-time deepfake detector. It can — in milliseconds — detect fake videos with a reported 96% accuracy rate.
As we think about the current chasm between companies telling people to come back to work and employees saying they want to work from home, it is the culture that will eventually decide what happens. We have several people in our industry who are demanding that “everyone can work from home” and that “the employees will make this choice.” I think that such comments blatantly ignore the culture of the workplace.
