Compliments Homeland Security News Wire New research has found that humans were only able to detect artificially generated speech 73% of the time, with the same accuracy in both English and Mandarin. New research has found that humans were only able to detect artificially generated speech 73% of the time, with the same accuracy in both English and Mandarin. The study, published today in PLOS ONE, is the first to assess human ability to detect artificially generated speech in a language other than English. Deepfakes are synthetic media intended to resemble a real person’s voice or appearance. They fall under the category of generative artificial intelligence (AI), a type of machine learning (ML) that trains an algorithm to learn the patterns and characteristics of a dataset, such as video or audio of a real person, so that it can reproduce original sound or imagery. While early deepfake speech algorithms may have required thousands of samples of a…