What are the best free tools for deepfake detection?

Start with MediaPipe Face Mesh for landmarks, then Euclidean via scikit-learn. Colab demos abound — no enterprise lock-in.

How do I build a face-swap detector pipeline?

Reference photo → extract 468 landmarks → batch video frames → threshold deviations at 3-5%. Add LSTM for motion.

Nah, but ignore biometrics and yeah. Provenance capture at source wins long-term.

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