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Wasted $75 on a deep fake detection app that was basically useless | Deep Fake Detectives - Vivisector

Wasted $75 on a deep fake detection app that was basically useless

Ngl I bought that 'Deep Guard' app after seeing an ad and it flagged a real BBC news clip as fake. Has anyone else gotten tricked by a detection tool that just creates more confusion?

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rileyprice2mo ago

Right when you said "learned the hard way" that hit home because I used to think all this AI detection stuff was just the future and you had to pay for the good stuff. Then my brother showed me a free browser extension that caught a deep fake of a politician way faster than this $75 piece of junk I downloaded. That BBC clip thing is wild you caught that too, it flagged a video of our local weatherman as fake and I knew that guy's face from years of watching the news. I even tried running my own selfies through it just for laughs and it said my face had "inconsistent lighting patterns" which is ridiculous since I was standing in my kitchen under a single bulb. So yeah I'm with you now, these apps are just capitalizing on fear and making things worse.

johnson.river2mo ago

Man that sucks, real bad feeling when you drop money on something and it does the exact opposite of what it said. I went through something pretty similar with a different tool, wasted like $60 on some "AI authentication" thing that kept flagging my own vacation photos as fake. Honestly what finally helped me was just learning a couple of simple checks myself, like looking at weird shadows around faces and checking if the background details match up. There's a bunch of free youtube videos that teach you the basics way better than any paid app. I still run stuff through a reverse image search first now, that catches a lot of the obvious fakes for free. Just gutted you had to learn the hard way like I did.

gavin_kim2mo ago

Bro, the kitchen selfie thing is EXACTLY what happened to me. I took a picture of my cat sitting on the couch and the app said "synthetic facial features detected" and I was like that's literally my cat's face I know that cat. It flagged a screenshot from a Zoom call with my grandma too said I had "digital artifacts around the hairline" when it was just her frizzy hair. My buddy who works in graphic design told me these things are basically just looking for any tiny flaw and calling it AI. Now I just use the free stuff and trust my eyes way more than any paid app.