I’m sure everyone has seen the footage this week of what appeared to be an American reporter hurriedly closing Porn Hub when going live to report on the election.
Nor surprisingly, this turned out to be fake. “Fake news” has become something of a common occurrence in this modern world of social media unfortunately.
A study in Australia is looking to “help us to better understand how well people can identify fake videos and what aspects of those fakes give them away.”
Because they are looking to see how well people can identify fakes, they are looking for people to take their survey (a desktop is recommended over a mobile device if possible). You need about 15 mins to complete the survey.
The quote below is the information provided about the survey, and the link to the survey is at the bottom.
The dissemination of false information online is a well-recognised societal problem. There is growing concern that credible fake videos (deepfakes) constitute a new and particularly potent form of online disinformation, challenging long held views that video and photographic evidence is reliable, potentially eroding our already challenged trust in information sources and promoting disengagement from democratic processes.
https://inspiringvictoria.org.au/fake-out/
In response to this problem, there has been an extensive body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) methods of deepfake detection and the Facebook Deepfake Detection Challenge. Human vulnerability to deepfakes, however, remains largely unexplored.
Your participation in this study, created by Dr Simon Cropper, Dr Gergely Nyalasy, Sarah Lorenz and Jennifer Nguyen from the University of Melbourne, will help us to better understand how well people can identify fake videos and what aspects of those fakes give them away.
Take the ‘Fake Out’ challenge and find out if you can spot a deepfake!
It is not easy (at least I didn’t think so). I am obviously not great at picking a fake (I got 19/30). How did you go?
November 13, 2020 at 12:58 pm
I have a feeling I won’t be very good at this. I might try it tomorrow; I’m a bit short for time today.
November 13, 2020 at 4:39 pm
If you do get back to it let me know, Liz. I’m sure you’d have to do better than me. I think my score (which was dismal I think) was only because I managed to guess some correctly, lol.