The ability to detect deep fakes becomes more important as they grow more prevalent.
Even if our conscious minds are deceived, our brains can still detect deepfakes.
54 percent of the time, subjects' brains, which were being monitored usingEEG, were able to detect deep fakes. The earlier group's success rate was only 37 percent.
Although more research is needed, the findings presage an intriguing possibility of tech that uses our own brain power to find knowledge we're not aware of.
Two experiments were done by the researchers. In the first, subjects were shown a series of 50 pictures that depicted both real and fake human faces. Next, the researchers brought in a new group of people who looked at the same amount of images and had their brains scanned.
The brain accuracy rate in the study is 54 percent, but senior researcher and associate professor Thomas Carlson said it is statistically reliable.
It isn't new, but the ease with which it can be done is novel. It used to be that you had to have a striking resemblance to the person you were pretending to be.
It's pretty much anyone can make a deep fake.
Scientists don't think this will lead to a definitive method of identifying deepfakes, but it is a start.
Carlson said more research was needed. The hope is that computer programs can leave fingerprints that can be detected.
Stay alert until better techniques of deep fake detection are developed. There are a lot of deep fakes online, representing everything from fake news to fake celebrities.
The FBI says scammers are using deep fakes to apply to remote jobs.
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