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    <Title>Professors Mallinson &amp; Janeja on detecting audio deep fakes</Title>
    <Tagline>Their approach combines people, linguistics, and technology</Tagline>
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          <div class="html-content"><div><br></div><div><span><span>UMBC professors <a href="https://llc.umbc.edu/dr-christine-mallinson/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Christine Mallinson</a> and <a href="https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vjaneja/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Vandana Janeja</a> have a new article on the <strong>Maryland Matters</strong> site for news about Maryland government and politics on </span><a href="https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/03/25/commentary-bringing-people-and-technology-together-to-combat-the-threat-of-deepfakes/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Bringing people and technology together to combat the threat of deep fakes</span></a>. <span>They briefly describe how they are working with a team of students to develop better ways to detect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_deepfake" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">audio deep fakes </a>with the support of an NSF grant.  </span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span>Audio deep fakes involves using AI algorithms to generate or manipulate audio recordings so that they sound like a specific person speaking or singing, typically without their consent. It poses a serious problem because it can be used to create convincing fake content for fraud, misinformation, or harassment, undermining trust in communications and media.</span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span>Their </span><a href="https://mdata.umbc.edu/deep-fake-detection/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>approach</span></a><span> to detecting these deep fakes takes into account human behavioral perspectives by encouraging collaborative research across sociolinguistics, human-centered analytics, and data science. </span></span></div><div><br></div></div>
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    <Summary>UMBC professors Christine Mallinson and Vandana Janeja have a new article on the Maryland Matters site for news about Maryland government and politics on Bringing people and technology together to...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:15:32 -0400</PostedAt>
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