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Letter: An endless battle of faker against detector

Published 13 June 2018

From Paul Whiteley, Bittaford, Devon, UK

Chris Baraniuk says that a machine learning system can now examine photos and detect fakes (26 May, p 10). It shouldn't be too long, then, before someone invents an algorithm that trains itself to repeatedly tweak a false image to avoid detection by the algorithm that spots fakes.

Issue no. 3182 published 16 June 2018

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