Preventing damage from deepfakes

There is no foolproof way to make yourself immune to deepfakes or their effects, but there are activities and actions you can take in order to reduce the dangers. In this section, we’ll examine methods that you can use to prevent as much damage as possible.

Starving the model of data

While deepfakes have been done with a minimum of data, the result is not seamless or high quality. This means that if you can simply prevent the deepfaker from getting enough data, you can prevent a deepfake from being of sufficient quality to fool anyone.

If you’re trying to protect a famous person, this tactic is much harder, since every movie, TV show, interview, or even photoshoot that is available is a source of training data for a model. In fact, it’s almost inevitable that enough data is available to target any famous person as the public nature of their job means that a lot of training data will be publicly available.

As a private...