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Deepfakes and Disinformation: Protecting Truth in the Age of

AI

By Omkar Bhalekar, Sr Network Engineer, Tesla

In today’s digital era, borders between truth and fiction are fading. As artificial intelligence technologies
emerged, the stage was set for a new and malevolent danger to arise, deepfakes. Deepfakes are fake
media produced with the help of artificial intelligence that can create extremely realistic images, audio,
and video, which have spawned an ever-growing wave of disinformation dismantling our very definition
of what truth is. This blog discusses the threat of deepfakes, their use in disseminating fake news, and
the actions we need to take to safeguard truth in this age of AI.

What Are Deepfakes?

They are created by advanced machine learning algorithms called Generative Adversarial Networks
(GANs). Networks are founded on a competition between two artificial intelligence actors: one creates

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