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GODDS

Global Online Deepfake Detection System

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Buffett Institute for Global Affairs McCormick School of Engineering
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  • The New York Times
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • CNN
  • Agence France-Presse
  • NPR
  • Deutsche Welle
  • Crain's

Authentication is now a precondition of reporting. Each submission is scored by an ensemble of detectors and reviewed by an analyst at the Northwestern Security & AI Lab, who documents what the evidence supports and what it does not.

8–24hrs Typical turnaround
3formats Video, audio, and images
100% Human-reviewed reports
Capabilities

What GODDS looks for

Voice cloning at scale

Synthetic speech now takes seconds of source audio to produce. The ensemble flags artifacts that survive compression, so a newsroom can judge a leaked recording before it spreads.

Reading a frame's history

Every edit leaves a trace. By modeling how compression, resampling, and generation each mark a file differently, analysts separate an altered clip from one merely re-encoded.

Built for deadlines

Reports arrive with a plain-language explanation, so an editor can act on the finding without a background in forensics.

Academia

Research projects

Separating fact from fiction requires a lot more than merely subjecting the digital artifact to inspection as many of today's deepfake detectors do.
V. S. Subrahmanian Principal Investigator, NSAIL
In the media

Coverage of our work

NBC5

7 ways to protect yourself as AI-generated deepfakes get harder to spot

Political deepfakes remain largely unregulated in Illinois, even as they become harder than ever to spot.

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CBS News Chicago

AI deepfakes are easier to make and harder to spot

Generative tools have lowered the barrier to convincing fakes, and raised the cost of getting verification wrong.

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Phys.org

Don't be duped: how to spot deepfakes

Manipulated media has been used to spread disinformation and perpetuate hoaxes across the internet.

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Team

Platform researchers and analysts

  • V. S. Subrahmanian, PhD Principal Investigator, Professor at Northwestern University
  • Sarit Kraus, PhD Professor at Bar-Ilan University
  • Ephraim Zimmerman PhD Student at Northwestern University
  • Inaaya Firoz Undergraduate at Northwestern University
  • Natalia Denisenko AlumniPhD Student at Northwestern University
  • Marco Postiglione, PhD AlumniPostdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University
  • Chiara Pulice, PhD AlumniSenior Research Associate at Northwestern University
  • Chongyang Gao, PhD AlumniPhD Student at Northwestern University
  • Julian Baldwin AlumniUndergraduate at Northwestern University

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