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This Smartphone Company Is Doing Something Incredible To Stop Deepfakes
Honor Deepfake video detection Honor Most companies these days are racing to integrate AI into their services. From Apple Intelligence to Google Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs, companies are adding AI into their apps and services wherever they can, allowing users to generate text, images, and videos on their devices. Honor is taking a slightly different tack. While it's also bringing AI features into its smartphones, it's putting the focus on "human-centric on-device AI," allowing you to detect AI deepfakes.
During its keynote at MWC Shanghai 2024, Honor revealed two new AI features: AI Deepfake Detection and AI Defocus Eye Protection. AI Deepfake Detection is exactly what it sounds like. It's an on-device tool that can examine videos frame-by-frame to evaluate whether it's generated by AI or not. It does this by looking at eye contact, lighting, image clarity, and video playback to detect things that might be invisible to the human eye. If the feature feels that it's a deepfake, it will generate a popup saying, "Honor scam alert. It looks like the other person could be using AI to swap their face."
Currently, the tool is limited to video calls at launch, targeted at helping users detect scammers, but it's easy to envision Honor allowing you to scan all videos in general. One of the biggest places to benefit might be social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, which are becoming overrun with AI-generated garbage.
"AI is revolutionizing our lives and driving the smartphone industry forward, but much of the industry has focused on cloud-based AI, which is just a part of the puzzle. On-device AI, which is run on smartphones that understand us better than any other devices, is uniquely positioned to deliver services that are tailored to us and our preferences," said George Zhao, CEO of Honor. "At [Honor], we believe on-device AI has the potential to empower users and become more capable in everything they do. We invite all industry players to join us as we explore the untapped potential of on-device AI."
The other feature Honor is rolling out is more focused on health. AI Defocus Eye Protection is intended to improve your eye health and reduce the cases of nearsightedness that seem to be caused by long-term screen usage. Essentially, this works by turning the screen of Honor phones into defocus glasses, which intentionally defocus the peripheral visual field. This can help maintain clear central vision and slow down eye elongation, which is one of the main causes of nearsightedness. According to Honor, the feature can "decrease transient myopia by 13 degrees on average after reading for 25 minutes," which is an impressive claim if true.
Both these features aren't available yet, but we expect them to be available on Honor's current crop of flagship smartphones or upcoming devices.
What Smartphone Company Is Using AI To Detect Deepfakes?
Artificial intelligence is everywhere right now, but not everyone is using it in good ways. That's why smartphone-maker Honor has developed a system that aims to tell you if what you're looking at is a video fabricated by AI.The tool, AI Deepfake Detection, looks at videos frame by frame and evaluates things like eye contact, lighting, image clarity and video playback for evidence that the human eye could miss. If it thinks the video was generated by AI, it will create a pop-up alert: "Honor scam alert. It looks like the other person could be using AI to swap their face."
For now, the feature only works on video calls to help users detect scammers.
"On-device AI, which is run on smartphones that understand us better than any other devices, is uniquely positioned to deliver services that are tailored to us and our preferences," said Honor CEO George Zhao. "At [Honor], we believe on-device AI has the potential to empower users and become more capable in everything they do. We invite all industry players to join us as we explore the untapped potential of on-device AI."Utah Man Sentenced In Smartphone Scheme That Defrauded Investors Out Of $10M
SALT LAKE CITY — A 60-year-old Utah man was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 29 months in jail after he admitted to defrauding hundreds of investors out of $10 million in his smartphone company — SAYGUS.
According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, it is the second time this year that Chad Leon Sayers has been sentenced for cheating other people out of money.
The release further states that 15 months of his imprisonment must be served consecutively to his current sentence of 41 months in prison.
The sentence also includes 12 months of supervised release. Additionally Sayers is ordered to pay $10,250,834.53 in restitution.
Between 2006 and 2010, Sayers lied to roughly 300 investors, telling them that SAYGUS was on "brink of a multi-billion-dollar pay-out," the release stated. He was able to convince them to invest $10 million into his company.
According to the release, Sayers said he was creating a smartphone named the "V" phone and then later the "V-Squared." He told the investors that a well-known wireless company had agreed to sell its phones. Furthermore, Sayers claimed that investors could potentially receive 100 times their original investment.
Sayers said the money would go toward research, design and manufacturing of the new phone.
For more than a decade, according to the release, Sayers spent invested funds on personal loans, personal credit card bills, personal rent and personal legal fees among other things.
On 26 different occasions, Sayers went to social media to claim the smartphone would be launching on a certain date, when it never did. He even sent out newsletters to the investors updating them of the latest developments, the release states.
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