Diane Chang is a panelist on “2024 Elections and AI Case Studies: Beware the Six-Fingered Man” at TrustCon in July 2024 and co-author of an IST blog on the same topic.
Just as the character Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride searched for the sixth finger as a telltale sign of the villain he sought to vanquish, deepfake images used to be easily distinguishable by the presence of anomalous characteristics such as superfluous fingers (often of “unusual size”). However, just in time for this year’s elections globally, spotting a deep fake is no longer straightforward due to the rapid progress of AI.
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