pat_murray53•2d agoTop Commenter

I keep seeing people fall for the same audio glitch in deep fakes

Honestly, it's the way the voices clip at the end of words that gives it away every time. I spotted it in a recent viral video of a politician where the s sounds just cut off abruptly. Has anyone else noticed this tell in those quick-cut clips on social media?

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the_viola2d ago

Nah hard disagree on this one. Audio glitches are way too inconsistent to be a reliable tell, especially with how much compression and warping happens on social media platforms. Most people are watching these clips on their phones with cheap speakers anyway so any weird s sounds or clipping could just be bad upload quality or the platform's own audio processing messing things up. The real deepfakes that actually fool people are the ones where the audio is perfectly synced and cleaned up by the person making them, so focusing on minor glitches feels like missing the bigger picture. Plus a lot of real videos also have audio issues from bad mics or editing so using that as a gotcha just creates false positives.

phoenixk642d ago

Oh and good luck telling the difference when the fake audio is literally just AI trained on someone's real voice anyway.

jessica9212d ago

Yeah I actually used to be all about the audio glitch thing too. Saw some posts breaking down artifacts in spectrograms and thought I was smart for spotting them. But you're right, all the compression and warping from social media just makes that useless for anything real. Kinda embarrassing how many real videos I probably called fake over a bad mic or something.