McAfee Showcases Advanced Deepfake Audio Detection to Identify AI-Generated Taylor Swift Scam

McAfee demonstrates how its advanced AI technology, known as Project Mockingbird, can identify AI-generated content created for malicious use. The video shown is a scam identified and analyzed by McAfee researchers. In this example, portions of a legitimate news segment have been replaced with AI-generated audio to lure victims to enroll in a fraudulent investment platform. When viewing this video, please note the red graph denotes the output of one of McAfee’s AI model’s prediction indicating which portions are likely AI-generated. This technology will help inform consumers that the media content might be malicious or misleading. Given that the adversary only manipulated parts of the audio track, the “ground truth“ line indicates which portions of the audio are actually “real“ vs “AI-generated“ and can be used to assess the effectiveness of McAfee’s detection technology.