Mother 'used deepfake to frame cheerleading rivals'

The BBC, in a story about a mother who used explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals kicked off the team, reports that UB computer scientists le led by Siwei Lyu have developed a tool that can identify deepfake photos by analyzing light reflections in a person's eyes.

“The two eyes should have very similar reflective patterns because they’re seeing the same thing,” said Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “It’s something that we typically don’t typically notice when we look at a face."  

Read the BBC story here. Also reporting on the research are IFL Science, New Atlas, The Daily Mail, Yahoo! News and others.