New $20m initiative in S’pore to develop tools to detect deepfakes and misinformation Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
SINGAPORE - Deepfakes circulating here could be watermarked in the future to alert viewers. Similarly, the same watermarking technology could be used to label trusted content. These are among a new arsenal of detection tools Singapore is developing to tackle the rising scourge of deepfakes and misinformation. The tools will be designed under a new $20 million initiative to build.
Singapore News - After an elderly resident in MacPherson fell prey to an investment scheme supposedly endorsed by then Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, he nearly lost several thousand dollars in fraudulent credit card charges. But after approaching his MP Tin Pei Ling for help,. Read more at www.tnp.sg