How to Protect Your Photos from Deepfakes

Preventing deepfake creation entirely is not possible. Any face photograph can theoretically be used as source material. However, several proactive steps can reduce the risk and limit the quality of materials available for deepfake generation. These include social media privacy settings that limit high-quality face photograph exposure, technical cloaking tools that add adversarial perturbations to photos disrupting AI training, and ongoing monitoring through ScanErase to detect any content using your likeness before it spreads widely.

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1. Restrict high-resolution face photos on public-facing profiles Set social media to private, use lower-resolution profile photos for professional directories.
2. Consider photo cloaking tools for photos you must share publicly Fawkes and Glaze add invisible perturbations that disrupt AI recognition and training in some cases.
3. Set up ScanErase monthly monitoring Early detection, days vs. months, dramatically reduces total harm from any deepfake occurrence.