OpenAI Announces Its New Tool That Can Detect Deepfake Images
SiliconANGLE , Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
As fears mount over the proliferation of deepfake images that could influence this year's many elections, OpenAI today announced the creation of a new tool to detect if an image was made with its own DALL-E AI image generator.
Unfortunately, OpenAI's deepfake detector only works successfully on images made by its own generative artificial intelligence, but it's a start. For years now, deepfake images have plagued the internet, especially manipulated sexual images. The worry is that as image generators improve, the web, especially social media, will be inundated with offensive fakes.
OpenAI has said it's under no illusions that deepfakes won't become a bigger problem as technology improves, which is why it's so important to create detection tools. With its new detector, AI predicts if an image has been altered from its original state. The company said it had over a 98% accuracy rating in detecting images made with DALL-E. Still, accuracy slumped to just 5% to 10% with images made by other companies' image generators.