“He looks very real”: media, knowledge, and search-based strategies for deepfake identification

• Main Author: Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Disinformation; Human experiment
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174650
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Deepfakes are a potential source of disinformation and the ability to detect them is imperative. While research focused on algorithmic detection methods, there is little work conducted on how people identify deepfakes. This research attempts to fill this gap. Using semi-structured interviews, partic...