Saetbyeol Leeyouk, a graduate student in the Critical Matter research group, is developing a tool to help Instagram users spot deepfakes. Called Unspectacular Feed, it’s a Chrome extension that flags images that appear to be deepfakes, and — more importantly — explains why it made that determination.
“I think that will make our society better,” she says, “to understand what is truth or not.” As generative AI tools proliferate and improve, Leeyouk is among the researchers who are working to help people understand the implications of this technology and consider how it should be governed, instead of “catching up after AI is already here.”