🎬 SOLARIS Book Series – Chapter 1: Unmasking the Illusion - The Tech Behind Deepfakes

This video is part of the SOLARIS Book Video Series, presenting chapters from the upcoming book on AI, Deepfakes, and Democracy — the result of three years of European research within the Horizon Europe SOLARIS Project.

In this first chapter, Assoc. Prof. Domenico Daniele Bloisi (National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics) explores the technical foundations of deepfakes:
How AI models generate synthetic faces, voices, and scenes
What makes detection so challenging
Why understanding the technology is key to building responsible and resilient digital societies

About the Book:
This book explores how deepfakes reshape trust, public discourse, and democratic processes, offering insights for citizens, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and anyone concerned with the future of truth in the digital age.

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More about SOLARIS: https://projects.illc.uva.nl/solaris/

This project is funded by the European Union under Grant agreement No. 101094665. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.