From BOOM Live
Video Of Pakistan Admitting To Losing Two Fighter Jets Is A Deepfake
By Swasti Chatterjee
A deepfake video of Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of the Pakistan Armed Forces, is viral claiming the country has admitted to losing two fighter jets amidst an escalating military conflict with India.
Professor Hany Farid, a forensic expert in synthetic media at UC Berkeley confirmed to BOOM that the viral clip is a deepfake...
In an email reply to BOOM, Farid said they analysed the audio with models trained to distinguish natural speech from AI-generated speech, finding results that it was a deepfake. “These models convincingly flag the voice as AI-generated,” Faird said on the audio adding, there were “clear misalignments between the mouth movement and the audio suggesting that it is a lip-sync deepfake” where the original video was modified to try to be consistent with the AI voice...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
