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Top AI researchers race to detect 'deepfake' videos: 'We are outgunned'
Drew Harwell,
The Washington Post
The 2016 US presidential election was plagued by fake news and election meddling across the internet. With the rise of so-called deepfake technology, fact-checkers and arbiters of truth face a new challenge. And as The Washington Post reports, researchers aren't ready to separate the real from the fabricated in 2020.
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