20240625|20:37

Status:

Tags:

How to spot a deep fake video

1. Pay attention to the face. High-end DeepFake manipulations are almost always facial transformations.
2. Pay attention to the cheeks and forehead. Does the skin appear too smooth or too wrinkly? Is the agedness of the skin similar to the agedness of the hair and eyes? DeepFakes may be incongruent on some dimensions.
3. Pay attention to the eyes and eyebrows. Do shadows appear in places that you would expect? DeepFakes may fail to fully represent the natural physics of a scene.
4. Pay attention to the glasses. Is there any glare? Is there too much glare? Does the angle of the glare change when the person moves? Once again, DeepFakes may fail to fully represent the natural physics of lighting.
5. Pay attention to the facial hair or lack thereof. Does this facial hair look real? DeepFakes might add or remove a mustache, sideburns, or beard. But, DeepFakes may fail to make facial hair transformations fully natural.
6. Pay attention to facial moles.  Does the mole look real?
7. Pay attention to blinking. Does the person blink enough or too much?
8. Pay attention to the lip movements. Some deepfakes are based on lip syncing. Do the lip movements look natural?

Key Takeaways

• Deepfakes may fail to fully represent the natural physics
• Look at:
  • Cheeks & forehead, are they too smooth/wrinkly?
  • Eyes and eyebrows, are there shadows where there shouldn't be?
  • Glasses, weird glare? Too much glare?
  • Facial hair, does the hair look real? is there more or less than normal?
    • Look at: mustache, sideburns, or beard
  • Facial moles, do they look real? is there a new one?
  • Blinking, to much or to little could be a sign
  • Lip movements, does it look natural? Is it properly synced?

References