Vijay Balasubramaniyan is the CEO of Pindrop, a voice security and deepfake detection company. He speaks with a16z partner Martin Casado about synthetic voice fraud detection performance.
“They're completely detectable. Right now we're detecting them with 99% detection rate with a one percent false positive rate.”
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Balasubramaniyan: AI deepfake detection is 100x cheaper than generation
“It's way cheaper to detect deepfix, right? Because if you think about it, the closest example is Apple released its model, you know, that could run on device. And even that model, which is a small model in order to do lots of things like voice to text and thin…”
Balasubramaniyan: High-quality voice deepfakes require only 15 seconds of audio
“All it requires for me to clone your voice, Martine now, requires about Three to five seconds of your audio, and if I want a really high quality deep fake, it requires about 15 seconds of audio.”
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