How to Distinguish Fake Videos, Photos, Clone Audios?

Although artificial intelligence technologies have useful aspects, they also for evil purposes It can also be a vehicle. Especially fake videos and photos created using a person’s face or fake voice recordings created with cloned voices make it very difficult for us to distinguish between real and fake on the Internet.

Well, what you see anywhere on the internet How do you know if a video, photo or audio is fake? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is not so simple. However, we will share with you tips that will help you distinguish between real and fake.

The ground rules before we get into everything:

• Be skeptical, question, don’t sell yourself to the images and sounds.
• Don’t immediately believe every image you see on the internet.
• Do not immediately fall for the description images of a loved one that are positive for you.

How to detect fake videos?

• An example from politicians, but let’s emphasize this: It will not always be as easy to detect as in this video.

Pay attention to the person’s facial and body movements:

Of course it’s a mime, the mouth movements are too artificial. But still an example.

One of the weakest points of deepfake technology, our most human selves. In the images you see, carefully follow the person’s eye, mouth, facial expressions, head and body movements. In this process, look for answers to the following questions:

• Is the person’s skin too smooth or too wrinkled?

• Do the eyes and eyebrows move naturally?

• Does the pupil remain stationary or play erratically and randomly?

• Does the person blink a lot or not at all?

• Do mouth movements match the sound you hear? Does the mouth move naturally?

• If so, do the facial beards stay fixed, move a lot, or do they blur?

• Are the body movements natural, do the head and body move in harmony with each other?

• Do the mimics play randomly regardless of what is being said?

• Do the emotions and facial expressions conveyed match each other?

Pay attention to the person’s posture and physique:

Another element that is most unsuccessful in artificial intelligence and manual editing in fake videos is human posture and physique. Open your eyes carefully and answer these questions:

• Are the body lines of the person natural? Is there a disorder?
• Do the head and body sizes match?
• Does the person take a natural stance, especially in parallel with the emotion he/she conveys?
• If there are images from different angles, do the body proportions in these images match the other images?
• Does the skin color match the person’s skin color you see in actual images you know and have seen before?

Note the anomalies in the video:

• A study done when deepfake went viral.

Humans and artificial intelligence cannot do everything perfectly. may occur in the video. factors such as any image distortion, slipping, snaggingmay indicate that the video is fake.

• Is there any distortion on the body or face in any frame of the image?

• Does even a pixel that is not around suddenly appear and disappear?

• If yes, do the items next to the person always remain stable?

• If yes, do the items that should be movable move?

• If so, do moving objects move naturally?

• Are there any momentary stutters in the video, points that do not match the previous frame?

Note the accessories on the person, if any:

Artificial intelligence technologies can create accessories in fixed images quite successfully. But with videos it gets harder. Doesn’t know how an accessory should act or behave at that momentso it usually leaves this accessory on the person.

So try to answer these questions:

• If so, do the glasses fit naturally in the person’s eyes?

• Is the light reflected from the glasses too little or too high?

• Does the reflection change or stay fixed as the person’s head moves?

• Do accessories such as necklaces, bracelets, and earrings seem to stick or move naturally?

• Does the light reflected from these accessories match the material of the accessory?

Note the lights and shadows in the video:

One of the most successful deepfake videos in terms of adaptation, but mouth movements give it away.

• Do the shadows, especially on the person’s face, appear naturally?

• Is the skin color change natural as a result of lighting, is there much or little difference in different regions?

• Does the lighting change at any point in the video?

• Is there any distortion, even momentary, in the shadows?

How to detect fake photos?

One of the hardest things to detect in the internet world is spotting fake photos. With the ever-evolving talent of technology and digital artists, creating realistic and fake images is just a click away.

In fact, fake Pope images produced with artificial intelligence such as Midjourney, which produced a non-scratch image, went viral all over the world, assuming it was real. Unfortunately to distinguish these images You’re going to have to be more skeptical.

• Note the person/object edges. Does it fit the whole of your photo, are there any pixel defects?

• Do the resolutions of the objects, environment, and person match? Is there anything clearer/more blurry?

• Do the shadows match the ambient light? Are there any inconsistencies?

• Are the contrast in the environment and the contrast in the person compatible with each other?

• Do the colors in the photo match the person?

• Is there a missing reflection in the environment?

• Is the reflection of the person present wherever it should be? (Mirror, glass, glass, metal surface, polished table etc.)

• Is there anything in perspective that seems strange to you?

• Is there even one abnormality in the photo? (There may even be an extra hand on the shoulders)

• Do the person’s feet, torso, and head stand naturally?

• Is there any deterioration in the environment behind the person?

Also for detecting objects added to an image In Adobe Photoshop, you can increase the contrast, play with the color levels, increase/decrease the brightness, or play with the level settings. You may see something like the following:

• This photo won an award in the Nikon photography competition, and it was later revealed that it was made with Photoshop, after different users manipulated the photo.

The following questions can be used to identify images that may have been created with artificial intelligence:

Also, the bend in the index finger is very steep and sharp.

• Are the hands natural?
• Do the limbs and body match the actual images of the person?
• Do body and limb dimensions match the person’s actual images?
• Most importantly, does the image match the person’s personality, philosophy, thoughts, style in past images?

How to detect cloned sounds?

• An example of sound cloning.

Detecting cloned sounds is possible today as long as you are careful. Artificial intelligence may not be able to convey the emotion that a person wants to convey in the same way as the cloned person. Even the most advanced cone tools Uberduck and ElevenLabs have some downsides.

To detect artificial sounds, look for answers to these questions:

• Do the words spoken by the person and the emotion desired to be conveyed with these words match the tone of voice?

• Do you hear a robotic distortion in the sound, even for a moment?

• Is there a tone, spike or dip in the audio that doesn’t match the person’s descriptions you’ve heard before?

• Are the words spoken by the person consistent with what they have said and said in the past?

• Is the sentence structure and the connection of these sentences close to the way you know the person, is it natural?

• Does the person occasionally breathe while speaking? Is the breathing frequency natural according to the speech and what is being said?

Voice cloning technology cannot be done in Turkish by many tools. However, there are tools available. However, ask additional questions such as:

• Does speaking Turkish sound natural?

• Does the person’s accent match their previous speech?

• Are the places where the person swallows and breathes natural?

• Do the word stresses match the emotion to be conveyed?

Here are some free tools that allow you to distinguish fake videos:

If you have any doubts about any of the above questions, you should try to treat the video as fake and not directly believe its content. The truth will soon emerge.

No free tools have been released yet to detect cloned voices.

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