Published May 15, 2023
A fact-check report on spotting deepfakes by VERIFY included comments from Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
He said while generative artificial intelligence can be helpful, it’s also doing harm when in the wrong hands. It’s being used to “recreate or produce realistic types of media,” including images, video, audio and some text, Lyu said. This includes impersonations or fake content.