YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to politicians and journalists

Public officials and journalists will soon beryllium capable to support track of AI-generated deepfakes of themselves connected YouTube done the platform's likeness detection feature.

The instrumentality is already available to millions of contented creators connected YouTube, but opening Tuesday, it volition grow to a aviator radical of journalists, authorities officials, and governmental candidates. (At a briefing with reporters, YouTube declined to stock who was successful the aviator group, including whether Donald Trump is portion of it.) Likeness detection is akin to Content ID, which scans YouTube for copyrighted worldly - but likeness detection looks for people's faces. When determination …

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