Behold, Yet Another Useless Gizmo: The Avatar SDK Deep Fake Detector

Fakes vs. Photo: Round One

The boffins behind Avatar SDK, clearly having too much time on their hands, have designed a new pointless plaything they’ve lovingly dubbed the ‘Deep Fake Detector’. This fancy name is just dressing up the fact that it operates on a groaningly simple principle—analyzing complete facial features to tell the difference between genuine photos and 3D avatars pretending to be them. Genius, right? Don’t all rush in at once.

Implications of This Tech Toy

The potential implications for such ‘earth-shattering’ tech are, you guessed it, just as underwhelming as the device itself. Supposedly, it could help combat the spread of deepfake technology. That’s if anyone could actually be bothered to use it. Perhaps it could find a home with half-baked internet sleuths trying to protect the world from badly rendered digital imposters. Otherwise, its potential impact is as empty as the heads of the nerds who developed it.

Hot Take: The Ultimate Technological Wet Blanket

This ‘Deep Fake Detector’ is as exciting as watching paint dry. In fact, the only thing it’s likely to detect is the sinking feeling of despair you’ll experience realizing you wasted precious moments of your life reading about it. Rest assured, the arrival of such a product on the tech market will barely cause a ripple, let alone a splash. It’s indicative of a wider trend of overhyped and underwhelming gadgets that attempt to solve problems we don’t really have. It feels like the real deepfake here is the promise of its relevance.

In short, congratulations Avatar SDK. You’ve developed a thrilling device destined to gather dust in the forgotten corners of cyberpace. Can’t wait to see what earth-shatteringly dull innovation you’re going to bore us with next.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/itseez3d-launches-avatar-sdk-deep-fake-detector-to-bolster-user-identity-protection/