Reality Defender offers deepfake detection solutions to protect enterprises, platforms, and governments from AI-generated threats. Their platform scans images, videos, and audio in real time to identify fabricated content, helping to prevent misinformation and maintain the integrity of digital media. Unlike competitors, Reality Defender focuses on enterprise-grade solutions with seamless integration through a subscription model. The company's goal is to enhance fraud prevention capabilities and ensure the authenticity of digital content.

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New York startup raises $33 million in an expanded Series A round to build technology to detect deepfake and AI-generated media.

Reality Defender Banks $33M to Tackle AI-Generated Deepfakes

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender.

Accenture Invests in Reality Defender to Help Fight Deepfake Extortion, Fraud and Disinformation

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections.Founded and led by Oren Etzioni, University of Washington professor and former CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, the Seattle-based group is backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp through his Camp.org nonprofit foundation.The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.“Disinformation, transmitted virally over social networks, has emerged as the Achilles heel of democracy in the 21st Century,” the group said in its announcement Wednesday morning, predicting “a tsunami of disinformation” in the 2024 election due to a sharp decline in the cost of using AI to create deceptive media.Oren Etzioni is leading the nonpartisan TrueMedia deepfake detection initiative. (AI2 Photo)TrueMedia plans to release a free, web-based tool in the first quarter of this year that combines advances from TrueMedia with existing deepfake detection tools in areas including computer vision and audio analysis. It will be available initially for use by journalists, fact-checkers, and online influencers before broader public release later in the year.The group is far from the first to take on this challenge, but Etzioni said he believes TrueMedia will be in a strong position to address it.“We think that both the particular focus on political deepfakes, and the particular expertise that we’re bringing together, is going to allow us go further, faster than has been done in the past,” Etzioni said in an interview with GeekWire this week.TrueMedia’s technology will analyze media uploaded by users and indicate the likelihood that the content is manipulated by artificial intelligence, along with an explanation of its assessment.In the meantime, the organization is taking signups for a waitlist and encouraging visitors to its website to submit examples of political deepfake content that they discover online, to help develop its tools.Etzioni said he was inspired to start looking into the problem after taking part in a meeting President Biden held with tech leaders this summer. At the same time, he emphasized the nonpartisan nature of the project. TrueMedia’s AI tools will make a technical assessment about uploaded media, not a political judgment about the underlying content.“This wasn’t what I was focused on [before the meeting]. I just realized how potentially horrific this can be in a narrowly divided election,” he said

New Ai Nonprofit Truemedia, Led By Oren Etzioni, Is Making A Nonpartisan Political Deepfake Detector

Reality Defender, a NYC-based provider of an AI-generated media detection platform, raised $15M in Series A funding

Reality Defender Raises $15M in Series A Funding

KYIV, Ukraine and NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Respeecher , a synthetic speech software developer, and Reality Defender , an award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection, today announced a strategic partnership to develop enhanced cutting-edge audio deepfake detection models.Respeecher + Reality DefenderThrough their collaborative efforts, Respeecher and Reality Defender aim to develop a comprehensive solution for detecting and preventing audio deepfakes made using Respeecher's technology. By integrating Respeecher's cutting-edge generative AI creation capabilities with Reality Defender's advanced detection technology, this joint effort will empower Reality Defender's clients to rapidly identify and neutralize potential AI-generated threats in real-time, thereby safeguarding millions from emerging deepfake-driven risks and sophisticated forms of fraud."We are excited to partner with Reality Defender, a pioneer in deepfake detection," said Alex Serdiuk, CEO and Co-Founder of Respeecher. "Our proprietary audio processing models will significantly enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of Reality Defender's detection platform, providing an unparalleled level of protection against AI-generated threats."Reality Defender's patented multi-model approach allows its deepfake detection web platform and API to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time. By integrating Respeecher's advanced audio processing capabilities into their defensive models, the partnership will provide a robust solution for detecting and preventing AI-generated audio threats."We are thrilled to partner with Respeecher," said Ben Colman, Co-Founder and CEO of Reality Defender. "Their standards for voice cloning, as well as their expertise in voice synthesis will significantly enhance our detection capabilities, enabling clients to have the best protection against weaponized audio

Respeecher And Reality Defender Partner To Combat Ai-Generated Threats

SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Reality Defender, the award-winning deepfake and AI-generated media detection platform, has been named the winner of the RSA Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox contest. Held in San Francisco, RSA Conference is the world's leading cybersecurity conference and exposition, with this year's 19th annual Innovation Sandbox serving as the premier destination for innovative startups to showcase and debut cutting-edge solutions poised to revolutionize the cybersecurity landscape."Winning the RSA Innovation Sandbox contest wholly validates our mission in building the best-in-class AI-generated content detection platform," says Ben Colman, Co-Founder and CEO of Reality Defender. "This award is a demonstration of our extensive work in the cybersecurity space, and we look forward to continuing to work with governments, financial institutions, and media platforms to protect the public from the most pressing digital threats in the modern era.""As a heavily research-driven cybersecurity company, winning the RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest is proof of our longstanding work against AI-driven generative content," says Gaurav Bharaj, Co-Founder and Head of AI at Reality Defender. "We believe this achievement will not only further cement Reality Defender as the leading solution for this pressing problem, but also inspire others to join us in partnership to tackle the ever-evolving threat landscape."Reality Defender provides best-in-class detection against advanced threats posed by deepfakes and AI-generated content. The company's industry-leading solutions for enterprises, government, and institutional clients help protect against everything from advanced voice fraud in call centers to media verification in newsrooms. As demonstrated by Colman at RSA Conference, Reality Defender's real-time voice detection platform catches audio-based deepfakes as they happen, while audiovisual detection finds even the most advanced AI-generated faces in images and videos made using the latest generative AI models.About Reality DefenderReality Defender is a cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media

Reality Defender Wins "Most Innovative Startup" At Rsa Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.TrueMedia launched its deepfake detector on Tuesday morning. (TrueMedia image)Seattle-based nonprofit TrueMedia released a free AI-powered media verification tool Tuesday to help journalists and fact-checkers detect deepfakes and combat misinformation ahead of upcoming U.S. and international elections.The non-partisan organization, which launched in January, is led by Oren Etzioni, University of Washington professor and longtime AI specialist, and funded by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp through his Camp.org nonprofit foundation.Oren Etzioni is founder of TrueMedia. (Allen Institute for AI Photo)Although the tool isn’t perfect, its ability to identify deepfakes is “extremely high,” with about 90% accuracy across images, video, and audio, Etzioni said. TrueMedia uses a combination of internally developed technology and AI detection tools from its partners to analyze media and come up with a probability that content is fake.For example, the tool automatically labeled as “highly suspicious” a known fake video that purported to show Ukraine’s top security official claiming responsibility for the March 22 terrorist attack at a Russian concert hall. The tool stated with 100% confidence that the video contained AI-generated imagery.“If it’s a deepfake, we’re very likely to catch it,” Etzioni said.In addition to launching the new tool Tuesday morning, TrueMedia reached a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft to share data and resources, collaborating on different AI models and approaches.Other partners of TrueMedia include Hive, Clarity, Reality Defender, OctoAI, AIorNot.com, and Sensity.The New York Times covered the launch of the tool Tuesday, citing examples including a fake image of Etzioni in the hospital that he generated using an AI tool

With Elections Looming, Truemedia Releases Ai Deepfake Detector For Journalists And Fact-Checkers

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference™, the world's leading cybersecurity conferences and expositions, today announced that Reality Defender has been named the winner of the annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest. Named "Most Innovative Startup 2024," Reality Defender was selected by a panel of esteemed judges for helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes. Utilizing a multi-model approach, Reality Defender's deepfake detection platform and API is robust against platforms producing AI-generated media, empowering teams to identify fraud, disinformation, and harmful content in real time. Reality Defender was selected by a panel of esteemed judges for helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakesRSA Conference: Where The World Talk Security. Reality Defender is the RSA Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox contest winner

Reality Defender Named "Most Innovative Startup" At Rsa Conference 2024 Innovation Sandbox Contest

NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Reality Defender, the RSA Innovation Sandbox-winning deepfake and AI-generated media detection platform, announced today the addition of real-time video deepfake detection to its product offerings. Companies and teams combating fraud can now verify individuals on web conferencing platforms in real time, preventing prevalent and sophisticated social engineering attacks that are increasingly used by cybercriminals. Reality Defender clients can now seamlessly use the platform's deepfake detection models to automatically verify if attendees on a call are real human participants and not using AI-generated tools to impersonate someone else. All detection is completed without leaving the conferencing app, with detection models scanning until a result is determined. "Real-time video deepfake detection could not have arrived at a more crucial time," said Ben Colman, CEO and Co-Founder of Reality Defender

Reality Defender Announces Real-Time Video Deepfake Detection For Web Conferencing Platforms

Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to attempt to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC with participation from Comcast Ventures, Ex/ante, Parameter Ventures and Nat Friedman’s AI Grant.The proceeds will be put toward doubling Reality Defender’s 23-person team into the next year and improving its AI content detection models, according to co-founder and CEO Ben Colman.“New methods of deepfaking and content generation will consistently appear, taking the world by surprise both through spectacle and the amount of damage they can cause,” Colman told TechCrunch in an email interview. “By adopting a research-forward mindset, Reality Defender can stay several steps ahead of these new generation methods and models before they appear publicly, being proactive about detection instead of reacting to what just appears today.”Colman, a former Goldman Sachs VP, launched Reality Defender in 2021 alongside Ali Shahriyari and Gaurav Bharaj. Shahriyari previously worked at Originate, a digital transformation tech consulting firm, and the AI Foundation, a startup building AI-powered animated chatbots. Bharaj was a colleague of Shahriyari’s at the AI Foundation, where he led R&D.Reality Defender began as a nonprofit. But, according to Colman, the team turned to outside financing once they realized the scope of the deepfakes problem — and the growing commercial demand for deepfake-detecting technologies.Colman’s not exaggerating about the scope. DeepMedia, a Reality Defender rival working on synthetic media detection tools, estimates that there’s been three times as many video deepfakes and eight times as many voice deepfakes posted online this year compared to the same time period in 2022.The rise in the volume of deepfakes is attributable in large part to the commoditization of generative AI tools.Cloning a voice or creating a deepfake image or video — that is, an image or video digitally manipulated to convincingly replace a person’s likeness — used to cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and require data science know-how

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