The Russian social network VKontakte began to develop a service for recognizing fakes in photos and videos. It has been reported TASS.
Users will be able to independently check “for the presence of facial manipulations” photos or videos uploaded to the platform, as conceived by the developers. We are talking about changes in editors or replacing one person with another.
The update is expected to roll out in six months, according to the company.
In Russia in 2020, a neural network was taught to identify “fake” faces in video with more than 90% accuracy. The service was believed to be of particular interest to news and PR agencies and media companies, as they needed to verify information.
Also Brand Analytics launched The Russian analogue of Downdetector, “Failure Detector” is a service for monitoring errors in the work of Internet resources. It is recorded that the Fault Detector neural network analyzes more than 40 million user messages from various sources, finds information about crashes and warns companies about problems.
Source: Gazeta
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