Simulated newspaper clipping about data scientists warning of the threat of deepfakes. Text was The most severe global risk this year and next, according to the World Economic Forum, is the use of misinformation and disinformation to “further widen societal and political divides.” Deepfakes are playing a major role in these disruptive campaigns—verification provider Sumsub has detected a 245% year-over-year increase in deepfakes worldwide in Q1 2024. To help election officials, media organizations, and watchdog groups working to maintain the integrity of elections, AI decision-system startup Revealense launched today a new, massive-scale deepfake detector. Deepfake growth YoY, Q1 2004Sumsub With almost three billion people participating in elections worldwide in 2024 and 2025, Sumsub analysis of millions of verification checks has found rapid growth in deepfakes in countries with forthcoming elections, including the U.S. (303%), India (280%), Indonesia (1,550%), Mexico (500%), and South Africa (500%), comparing Q1 of 2024 to Q1 of 2023.
Deepfakes, however, are widespread and gaining in popularity even in countries with no elections this year, including China (2,800%), Turkey (1,533%), Singapore (1,100%), Hong Kong (1,000%), Brazil (822%), Vietnam (541%), Ukraine (394%) and Japan (243%). Deepfakes by industrySumsub This is because AI today is an easy-to-access-and-use tool for deceiving and manipulating corporations, government agencies, and non-profits all over the world. Sumsub year-over-year numbers for Q1 2024 show increases in the quantity of deepfake cases in iGaming (1,520%), marketplaces (900%), fintech (533%), crypto (217%), consulting (138%), and online media (68%). What’s to be done about deepfakes?
Besides regulation—which is slow in coming together and eventually may not help much—the best way to fight AI is with AI. But not a one-dimensional AI—when it comes to telling a human from a machine, detecting the authenticity of a source of content, it is important to recognize that humans are distinguished from machines by their multi-dimensionality, by their complex behavioral patterns.
This was the premise behind the 2021 founding of Revealense, assembling a team of experts in psychology, neuropsychology, nonverbal and cultural-patterns specialists, mathematics, AI, computer vision, and neural networks. Together they have developed an AI platform that can analyze voice- and video-based communications […]
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