What are deepfake images and how can you spot them?

WKBW-TV interviewed Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, about a new tool his lab created that can help identify deepfake photos.

The tool analyzes light reflections in a subject’s eyes. “We look into the eyes of the images. If it’s a real photograph the two eyes see exactly the same things,” Lyu said. He said that our corneas are very reflective so they pop up in high-resolution photos, but in a real photo the reflection spots are in the same position on both eyes.

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