The Only Way to Fight Deepfakes Is by Making Deepfakes
April 16, 2026
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The Verge profiles the cottage industry of deepfake detection startups using AI to thwart AI, with Reality Defender featured alongside Pindrop and others.
CTO Alex Lisle describes the company’s inference-based approach: “Our foundational model uses something called a student/teacher paradigm. We take a bunch of real things and say, ‘These are real,’ and then a bunch of fake things and say ‘This is fake.’” Reality Defender also cloned the reporter’s own voice, with consent, to demonstrate how convincing consumer-grade audio deepfakes have become.
