The development of increasingly sophisticated technology means that people often find it difficult to differentiate between real and artificial content. As a result, people are often deceived by content resulting from technological manipulation, and this can often cause moral and material losses for the victims.
One artificial technology that is capable of producing manipulative content is deepfake. Deepfakes are often used for various nefarious purposes ranging from blackmail revenge to political manipulation. This article will discuss what deepfakes are, the dangers, and how to avoid crimes using deepfakes. Come on, read the article until the end!
What Are Deepfakes?
Deepfake is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can produce quite convincing hoax photos, audio, and videos. Deepfake uses advanced technology between deep learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Deepfakes are also created using two conflicting AI algorithms, namely the generator and the discriminator.
Generators function as algorithms that create multimedia content. In contrast, the discriminator determines whether the content is genuine or fake and provides repair information for subsequent deepfakes.
The Dangers of Deepfakes
One of the dangers of deepfakes is that this technology can be used to make people believe that the content produced is true and real when, in reality, it is not. Apart from that, deepfake technology is vulnerable to being used by cybercrime perpetrators to carry out scamming attacks, social engineering, identity theft, financial fraud, and other forms of online crime.
How to Distinguish content that has been manipulated by deepfakes
Here are some tips for distinguishing deepfake manipulated content:
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Focus on the physical target
Basically, deepfake content is an imitation of a real person or object. However, the resulting content still has weaknesses you can see through skin color, hair, or other physical characteristics.
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Look at the lighting
Apart from the physical target, you can also analyze the results of deepfake content through lighting. Usually, deepfake content has less-than-perfect lighting results, and there is a visible difference between the results of real and real content.
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Way of speaking
The final way is to analyze lip movements from deepfake content. How someone speaks in deepfake content is usually not in sync with their voice and lip movements.
How to Prevent Deepfake Crimes
Apart from paying attention to the content produced by deepfakes and distinguishing it from real content, you can also prevent deepfake crimes in the following ways:
1. Reduce posting on social media
If you are quite active in posting on social media, you need to start being careful about leaving posts in the form of digital traces such as writing, images, video, and audio. All forms of posts will be vulnerable to being exploited by cybercriminals to create deepfake content.
2. Use the account privacy feature
Apart from being careful with every post you share; you can also activate the privacy feature on your social media account. This feature is useful for limiting access to your social media accounts from people you don't know and are not responsible for.
3. Be wise in using the internet
The third way is to be wise in using the internet. Considering that deepfakes are a serious crime and can significantly impact victims, you need to be more careful in assessing all content on the internet so as not to be fooled by manipulated content such as deepfakes.
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