New Tool Protects From Deepfakes

Last month I posted about fake news and deep fake videos on the Internet. All is not lost; developers are working on tools that can identify deep fakes and protect videos from tampering.

Called Amber Authenticate, the tool is meant to run in the background on a device as it captures video. At regular, user-determined intervals, the platform generates "hashes"—cryptographically scrambled representations of the data—that then get indelibly recorded on a public blockchain. If you run that same snippet of video footage through the algorithm again, the hashes will be different if anything has changed in the file's audio or video data—tipping you off to possible manipulation.

I don't think this is a universal solution (there probably isn't one), but it's a start.