Gregory Tarr, a teenager from Ireland, made an artificial intelligence software program that can detect DeepFake media with state-of-the-art accuracy.
His AI software program is made of over 150,000 lines of code that is much faster and more efficient compared to other current best models while still being effective and accurately detecting DeepFake.
DeepFake is an altered media–a photo, video, or a recording of someone–that is aimed at misrepresenting something or someone, and is typically used maliciously to malign someone or spread false information. It is seeing a heightened usage in the age of misinformation and disinformation.
It is an absolute honor to win the BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year award for my project titled 'Towards Deepfake Detection'!
Thank you to everyone involved! I'd like to give a special thanks to BT for holding this fantastic exhibition online despite COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/HAyf0MWkE1
— Greg Tarr (@Greg_Tarr) January 8, 2021
“I’ve been working on AI for maybe four years, and it’s being trained to look at vast amounts of data. It’s a concept that is currently being done, but mine is ten times faster,” he said in an interview with Euronews last 2021.
Then-17-year-old Tarr won the 57th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2021 for his AI software program and represented Ireland at the European Union Contest in September 2021.
According to the Irish Independent, Tarr received an offer from a London-based investor who wanted to invest in his AI software program.
He is now the CEO of his own company, Inferex, with his dad, Richard Tarr, who is working as head of infrastructure for the company.
“I think I grew up in a month – I went from being 17 and having not paid any tax in my life and not having driven a car to owning an American company with an Irish subsidiary, having to find out about tax law and having one million in the bank in that year,” he told the Irish Independent.
Tarr is now working on an AI infrastructure in his company.
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