Can deepfakes be stopped?

To reduce the potential dangers of deepfakes, videos can be equipped with a unique digital key that proves their origin, or with metadata showing where and when they were captured. Artificial intelligence can be trained to recognize deepfakes and remove them from websites. Deepfakes have already been banned from many porn sites, as well as from Twitter. Ultimately, though, the genie is out of the bottle. FakeApp’s creator, “deepfakeapp,” another Reddit user, told ViceNews .com he wanted to give “everyday people” the opportunity to use technology previously limited to “big-budget SFX companies.” Most tech experts say people will simply have to adapt to this new normal, by recalibrating their trust in the once unimpeachable medium of video. Soon, we won’t be able to trust our own eyes.