Human Detection of Political Speech Deepfakes across Transcripts, Audio, and Video

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12883v4
• Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:14:36 GMT
• Title: Human Detection of Political Speech Deepfakes across Transcripts, Audio, and Video
• Authors: Matthew Groh, Aruna Sankaranarayanan, Nikhil Singh, Dong Young Kim, Andrew Lippman, Rosalind Picard
• Abstract summary: Recent advances in technology for hyper-realistic visual and audio effects provoke the concern that deepfake videos of political speeches will soon be indistinguishable from authentic video recordings. We conduct 5 pre-registered randomized experiments with 2,215 participants to evaluate how accurately humans distinguish real political speeches from fabrications. We find base rates of misinformation minimally influence discernment and deepfakes with audio produced by the state-of-the-art text-to-speech algorithms are harder to discern than the same deepfakes with voice actor audio.
• Score: 4.78385214366452
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in technology for hyper-realistic visual and audio effects provoke the concern that deepfake videos of political speeches will soon be indistinguishable from authentic video recordings. The conventional wisdom in communication theory predicts people will fall for fake news more often when the same version of a story is presented as a video versus text. We conduct 5 pre-registered randomized experiments with 2,215 participants to evaluate how accurately humans distinguish real political speeches from fabrications across base rates of misinformation, audio sources, question framings, and media modalities. We find base rates of misinformation minimally influence discernment and deepfakes with audio produced by the state-of-the-art text-to-speech algorithms are harder to discern than the same deepfakes with voice actor audio. Moreover across all experiments, we find audio and visual information enables more accurate discernment than text alone: human discernment relies more on how something is said, the audio-visual cues, than what is said, the speech content.

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