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County Cork Leaving Cert student Greg Tarr has won this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.
The 17-year-old from Bandon Grammar School was honoured for programming an artificial intelligence computer programme that quickly and accurately detects ‘deepfake’ videos.
The software for the project, entitled Detecting state-of-the-art deepfakes, includes over 150,000 lines of code, with judges finding that it was significantly faster and more efficient than the current models on offer - with no sacrifice on its ability to accurately detect the fake.
Deepfakes are images and videos that have been convincingly altered to replace one person’s likeness with another’s.