Begun, the deepfake wars have.

As usage grows of FakeApp — the software that makes it comparatively easy to create "deepfaked" face-swapped videos — a couple of researchers have decided to fight fire with fire. So they trained a deep-learning neural net on tons of examples of deepfaked videos, and produced a model that's better than any previous automated technique at spotting hoaxery. (Their paper documenting the work is here.)

This is good, obviously, though as you might imagine the very techniques they're using here could themselves be employed to produce better deepfakes. Technology!

As MIT Tech Review reports …