‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?

Tell-tale signs of generative AI images are disappearing as the technology improves, and experts are scrambling for new methods to counter disinformation

With more than 4,000 shares, 20,000 comments, and 100,000 reactions on Facebook, the photo of the elderly woman, sitting behind her homemade 122nd birthday cake, has unquestionably gone viral. I started decorating cakes from five years old," the caption reads, and I can't wait to grow my baking journey."

The picture is also unquestionably fake. If the curious candles - one seems to float in the air, attached to nothing - or the weird amorphous blobs on the cake in the foreground didn't give it away, then the fact the celebrant would be the oldest person in the world by almost five years should.