Are your eyes lying to you? Experts, Pentagon hunt for tools to detect hoax videos

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Are your eyes lying to you? Experts, Pentagon hunt for tools to detect hoax videos

By Tim Johnson


Updated June 28, 2018 12:56 PM
Washington

Fake videos have become such a potentially disruptive threat that the high-tech research arm of the Pentagon is launching a contest in early July aimed at detecting “deepfakes,” hoax videos so realistic that they could trigger political scandal or even spark violent conflict.

Some 10 teams from major U.S. universities across the United States and Europe will compete in a two-week contest to devise techniques to distinguish between fake and real videos.

Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/article213987384.html#storylink=cpy

[Oceander]

Simple solution: don’t believe any video with strong political connotations unless there is a large body of corroborating evidence, such as a significant number of eyewitness accounts.