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Combating Deepfake Videos Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts

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Hasan, Haya R., Salah, Khaled·2019·IEEE Access

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With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning techniques, fake digital contents have proliferated in recent years. Fake footage, images, audios, and videos (known as deepfakes) can be a scary and dangerous phenomenon and can have the potential of altering the truth and eroding trust by giving false reality. Proof of authenticity (PoA) of digital media is critical to help eradicate the epidemic of forged content. Current solutions lack the ability to provide history tracking and provenance of digital media. In this paper, we provide a solution and a general framework using Ethereum smart contracts to trace and track the provenance and history of digital content to its original source even if the digital content is copied multiple times. The smart contract utilizes the hashes of the interplanetary file system (IPFS) used to store digital content and its metadata. Our solution focuses on video content, but the solution framework provided in this paper is generic enough and can be applied to any other form of digital content. Our solution relies on the principle that if the content can be credibly traced to a trusted or reputable source, the content can then be real and authentic. The full code of the smart contract has been made publicly available at Github.

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  • Other researchers focus on content to categorize fake news by distinguishing different formats and content types of data in the news.

    “However, other researchers (Parikh and Atrey 2018; Fraga-Lamas and Fernández-Caramés 2020; Hasan and Salah 2019; Masciari et al. 2020; Bakdash et al. 2018; Elhadad et al. 2019; Yang et al. 2019b) focus on the content to categorize types of fake news through distinguishing the different formats and content types of data in the news (e.g., text and/or multimedia).”

    From Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review (2023) · cites this paper as Hasan and Salah 2019

    The Introduction identifies fake videos, images, paintings, and audio as forms of digital content, and the Abstract says the paper focuses on video. But the paper proposes tracing content provenance with blockchain; it does not categorize fake news by distinguishing text from multimedia or other content formats. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • A security analysis of Hasan and Salah's Blockchain-based solution shows it addresses integrity, accountability, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.

    “Additionally, a security analysis of their BC-based solution shows how it addresses important security objectives like integrity, accountability, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.”

    From Deepfakes: current and future trends (2024) · cites this paper as Hasan and Salah 2019

  • Content can be real and authentic if it can be reliably linked to a reliable or trustworthy source.

    “Their answer is based on the idea that content can be real and authentic if it can be reliably linked to a reliable or trustworthy source.”

    From Deepfakes: current and future trends (2024) · cites this paper as Hasan and Salah 2019

  • A Blockchain-based Ethereum smart contract scheme can track the provenance and history of digital content to its original source even if it is copied multiple times.

    “A scheme using BC-based Ethereum technology, the second largest BC network, specifically Ethereum smart contracts, to track the provenance and history of digital content to its original source, even if it is copied multiple times, is presented in Hasan and Salah (2019).”

    From Deepfakes: current and future trends (2024) · cites this paper as Hasan and Salah 2019

  • Leveraging technologies such as blockchain or privacy-enhancing digital fingerprints can transparently trace content origins.

    “Leveraging technologies such as blockchain (Hasan and Salah 2019), or privacy-enhancing digital fi ngerprints can transparently trace content origins (Barrington et al. 2023).”

    From Generative AI and deepfakes: a human rights approach to tackling harmful content (2024) · cites this paper as Hasan and Salah 2019

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Authors
Hasan, H. R., & Salah, K.
Affiliations
Khalifa University of Science and Technology (AE)
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2019
Volume
7
Pages
41596-41606
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2920877282
Cited by
339
References
13
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 55 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 21
FWCI
54.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Access (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
Keywords
deepfakes, video authenticity, blockchain, smart contracts, Ethereum, IPFS, content provenance

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