Pindrop traced the fake Biden robocall to shut down the perpetrator
Vijay Balasubramaniyan · Can We Detect a Deepfake? · Oct 30, 2024 · at 9:02
Vijay Balasubramaniyan is the CEO of Pindrop, an audio security company. He describes how Pindrop investigated the AI-generated Joe Biden robocall distributed during the 2024 New Hampshire primary.
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“So not only did we come in and say this was a deep fake, but we identified The, we have something called source tracing, which tells us which AI application was used to create this deep fake. So we identified the deep fake and then we worked with that AI application. They're an incredible company. We worked with them and they immediately found the person who used that script and shut them down.”
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