NEW YORK ¨C Facebook Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp., the Partnership on AI coalition and academics from several universities to launch a contest to better detect deepfakes, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
The social media giant is putting $10 million into the ¡°Deepfake Detection Challenge,¡± which aims to spur detection research. As part of the project, Facebook is commissioning researchers to produce realistic deepfakes to create a data set for testing detection tools.
The company said the videos, which will be released in December, will feature paid actors and that no user data would be utilized.
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