A deep take for detecting deepfakes
Welcome to dystopia – or perhaps better spelled as dystopAI: harassment, humiliation, grooming, sextortion, suicide, and fraud cases exceeding $1.5 billion in 2025. Because humans have an extremely difficult time spotting the difference between authentic images and deepfakes, the crisis is all the more difficult to stop.
And it’s massive. As Gov.UK reports, a 2023 investigation “found 276,149 sexual deepfakes on a single dedicated site … with 96 percent depicting women,” and noted that globally, “nudification” sites in September 2023 alone attracted 24 million visits.
“‘Nudification’ apps are not used for harmless pranks,” says Jess Phillips, the UK’s Minister for Safeguarding and Violence against Women and Girls. “They devastate young people’s lives ... We must stop these images being created and shared while tackling the root causes of negative influences on young men in their schools, homes and online.”
So, what’s the solution to this devastation? In the United Kingdom,...
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