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Hany Farid
UC Berkeley professor; digital forensics pioneer
UC Berkeley professor who helped pioneer digital image forensics. Leads deepfake-detection research and advocates for provenance-based governance of synthetic media.
current Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information
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Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesAdvocates for content provenance standards (C2PA) and universally-applied media-detection infrastructure.
The problem with deepfakes is not the fakes. It's that every real thing now has plausible deniability.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.