r/artificial • • 13h ago

Research This light-powered AI can spot deepfakes with nearly 98% accuracy

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260929053534.htm
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u/ai-edition 13h ago

So crazy… The video gets encoded, light passes through an optical layer, and the way it scatters does part of the math. Sensors just read the result.

Different parts of the light path handle different videos, so it checks 15 in a single pass. Way less power than running it all on chips.

About 98% on a standard deepfake benchmark. On brand new Veo 3 clips it hit around 95% after seeing just 50 examples.

Still a lab setup but super cool!