ForceField helps detect deepfakes and digital deception by verifying source data

A new startup setting out to combat the scourge of deepfakes and spoofed evidence in the age of AI is showing off its wares on the Startup Battlefield stage this week. ForceField is building a set of “patent-pending” APIs dubbed MARQ, the first of which is designed to authenticate content algorithmically. ForceField, for its part, is focusing on the device level rather than the content — this means any data stream, on any device, where ForceField’s technology is present. This could be a mobile app with ForceField’s API integrated, or a surveillance camera’s video-management system or drone’s hardware — it can “sign and hash for verification” in real-time.