Latest headlines: Bob Snyder on deepfakes and how Intel may have a solution, Chris Gillespie on creating a mature AV/VC environment and more
April 25, 2023 | Volume: 16 | Issue: 8
It’s time to talk about ~videoconferencing~ at your respective institutions. (I know not all of you are tech managers, but hear me out.) Deepfakes are something that we first laughed at, but we are now taking them more seriously as the impersonations have gotten more realistic. That’s why we need to be wary of them and the possibility they could invade our video calls one day — but Intel may have a solution for picking out deepfakes and the solution is based on …. blood flow? Read Bob Snyder’s piece for more information.
Chris Gillespie also offers a column this time around — and it’s about maintaining a mature AV/VC environment. This is just as important to do at a school or university as it is at a large company. While this article mentions a lot about an enterprise environment, I see these phases working well everywhere. Give it a read and look out for part two coming very soon!
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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.
Over the past decade or so, I have been rather lucky to have the opportunity to observe and understand the state of audiovisual and videoconferencing environments across various organizations. For the most part, things work pretty solidly. At least for users. But beyond that, most organizations that I have seen have never really taken things to the “next level,” or, while they have taken steps in that direction, it’s not been a huge goal. The problem with the next level, however, is that there is no real consensus on what that looks like.
