Deepfake Evidence and Technology for Forensic Content Oversight and Research
The dynamic development of generative artificial intelligence has made the creation of synthetic media (content generated partially or entirely with the use of AI) common and accessible to anyone. This technology sparks new possibilities, yet it also creates new challenges which may undermine democratic foundations and affect public safety. Deepfakes – realistic but fabricated content depicting people in situations that never occurred – constitute a particular problem. Such content can be used to manipulate public opinion, commit financial fraud, or sabotage state institutions.
For law enforcement agencies and criminal laboratories, it means growing challenges in assessing the reliability of digital evidence. The DETECTOR project (Deepfake and Synthetic Media Detection for Digital Evidence Reliability), funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme and implemented in the years 2025–2028, provides an answer to these challenges. Its goal is to deliver specialised tools for identifying manipulated audio, video, and text, as well as to create diverse and comprehensive datasets. Thanks to the international collaboration between AI researchers, law enforcement agencies, forensic experts, lawyers and ethicists, DETECTOR will strengthen digital evidence reliability, support judicial processes, advance research on digital evidence exchange, provide training for forensic specialists, and deliver recommendations for policymakers.
PPHS leads the activities related to maximising the project’s impact, including the communication and dissemination strategy, stakeholder mapping, and co-development of the project’s training framework. It collaborates with CENTRIC on clustering activities, Advisory Board coordination and training initiatives, and with DigInnov on policy, exploitation, and broader impact.
PPHS also contributes to project management and quality assurance, analyses relevant legal and ethical frameworks, and carries out components of the external evaluation. It assesses DETECTOR’s tools in terms of their practical applicability, alignment with real-world procedures, and value for the security and digital forensics community.
The aims of the activities carried out by the practitioners’ network established under the DETECTOR project are:
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Get in touch with us at projekty@ppbw.pl
