Youtube Is Rolling Out Likeness Detection Tool to Combat Deepfakes
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YouTube is introducing a likeness detection tool to combat deepfakes, sparking consideration of its potential effectiveness and implications for content creators.
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>To participate, people will need to submit a government ID and a brief video selfie to YouTube to ensure they are who they say they are and give the feature source material to draw from in its review. From there, it works similarly to YouTube's Content ID feature for finding copyrighted audio
Oh man like Content ID??? That's very discouraging ....