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Wasted $150 on a 'deep fake detector' app that was completely useless
I bought this app called DeepGuardian last month because it claimed to spot fakes in real time. It flagged a perfectly normal video of my friend talking as 87% fake. Then I ran an obvious deep fake of Tom Cruise on it and it said 22% fake. Total garbage. I contacted support and they never replied. Has anyone else wasted money on one of these scammy detector tools?
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alice9284d ago
Hmm, still sounds like you're blaming the tool for doing what it's designed to do...
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emma_wells834d ago
$150 down the drain sounds about right for those detector apps. I had the same thing happen with something called TrustScan a few months back. It flagged a random video of my cat as 95% fake but gave a real deepfake of a politician like a 5% score. Honestly, those tools are basically just guessing and there's no real regulation on them. Best advice I can give is stick to basic common sense and reverse image searches instead of throwing cash at "AI detectors".
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sean_barnes244d ago
Hang on, are you sure it was TrustScan or was it something else? I actually used TrustScan a few weeks ago after a friend recommended it, and it called a real picture of my sandwich (nothing special, just lunch) like 8% fake, which seems way off. But the point you're making about them basically guessing is pretty spot on, I think the real issue is that these detectors don't have any standard way to test themselves, you know? Every company just makes up their own rules for what counts as "AI generated" and that's why you get crazy results like a cat video being flagged. I mean, a blurry video of a cat probably has compression artifacts that look like AI stuff to a poorly trained model. So yeah, you're right that common sense and reverse image searches are way more reliable than throwing money at these apps, especially since there's zero regulation on them right now.
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