Is This a Deepfake? | Human Detection of Political Deepfakes

The video explores a recent MIT Media Lab study on detecting political deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video. It discusses the challenges of identifying deepfakes, especially as technology improves, and highlights a TikTok example of Tom Cruise deepfakes. The study reveals that people struggle most with text-based detection, while audio and video are easier to identify. It also examines how discordant messaging affects detection accuracy, showing that unexpected subtitles can decrease accuracy in identifying real videos.

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