{"id":181573,"date":"2024-01-28T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/team-develops-a-new-deepfake-detector-designed-to-be-less-biased"},"modified":"2024-01-28T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:24:55","slug":"team-develops-a-new-deepfake-detector-designed-to-be-less-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/team-develops-a-new-deepfake-detector-designed-to-be-less-biased","title":{"rendered":"Team develops a new Deepfake Detector designed to be Less Biased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-develops-a-new-deepfake-detector-designed-to-be-less-biased3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University at Buffalo computer scientist and deepfake expert Siwei Lyu created a photo collage out of the hundreds of faces that his detection algorithms had incorrectly classified as fake\u2014and the new composition clearly had a predominantly) darker skin tone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA detection algorithm\u2019s accuracy should be statistically independent from factors like race,\u201d Lyu says, \u201cbut obviously many existing algorithms, including our own, inherit a bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lyu, Ph.D., co-director of the UB Center for Information Integrity, and his team have now developed what they believe are the first-ever deepfake detection algorithms specifically designed to be less biased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University at Buffalo computer scientist and deepfake expert Siwei Lyu created a photo collage out of the hundreds of faces that his detection algorithms had incorrectly classified as fake\u2014and the new composition clearly had a predominantly) darker skin tone. \u201cA detection algorithm\u2019s accuracy should be statistically independent from factors like race,\u201d Lyu says, \u201cbut obviously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}