Tech challenges of start-ups – How do you stay outsmarted by deepfakes?

Every year, dozens of tech start-ups start up in the Low Countries, which have big dreams, but have to overcome technical obstacles to make them come true. In this article we discuss what start-up DuckDuckGoose encounters when developing its deepfake detector.

Deepfake technology is getting better and better, and as long as there is a fear that at some point we will no longer be able to tell real from fake, there are already companies trying to solve this problem. Tools that can recognize deepfakes with all kinds of technological, AI-driven tricks are not new. In addition to many start-ups, giants such as: Microsoft, Meta and Intel join the race to bring the best possible deepfake detector to the market. They all try to outdo each other with technological breakthroughs, and they all claim to have the highest possible success rate.