Just in time for the 2024 US election, call screening and fraud detection company Hiya has released a free Chrome extension to identify deepfake audio. The aptly named Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector “listens” to the voice played in a video or audio stream and assigns a confidence score to indicate whether it’s likely to be real or fake.
Hiya told Engadget that third-party testers have verified that the extension is more than 99% accurate. The company says the detection model also covers AI-generated audio it hasn’t trained on, and claims that audio created by the new synthesis model can be identified as soon as it’s started.
I tried this extension before its release and it seems to work well. A search for a suspected AI-narrated YouTube video about blues pioneers Howlin’ Wolf was assigned an authenticity score of 1/100, indicating it was likely a deepfake. It was judged. Suspicion confirmed.
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Hiya launched a scathing attack on social media companies that need such tools. “Social media sites clearly have a huge responsibility to warn users when the content they are consuming is likely to be an AI deepfake,” Hiya President Khush Parikh said in a press release. mentioned in. “Right now, the onus is on individuals to be aware of the risks and use tools like deepfake audio detectors to check if they have concerns that their content has been modified. We’re excited to support them with a solution that will help them get some of their money back.”
The extension simply listens to the audio for a few seconds and spits out the results. It works on a credit system to prevent Hiya’s servers from going down due to excessive requests. You’ll receive 20 credits each day, but I’m not sure if that will cover the flood of manipulative AI content you’ll encounter on social media in the coming weeks.
