The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced two new initiatives to help the government and industry boost their defenses against manipulated and synthesized media, known as deepfakes. DARPA said Thursday it will launch an open community research effort to create machine learning models designed to detect synthetic images generated by artificial intelligence. The AI Forensics Open Research Challenge Evaluation will feature a series of mini challenges to develop models that can identify the difference between authentic and fully synthetic AI-generated images. Another effort is an analytic catalog that offers government and industry researchers access to open-source resources developed under
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