Ben Colman of Reality Defender on Deepfake Detection, Disinformation, and Safeguarding Trust in AI

The soap opera-level drama that unfolded after the surprise ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI, a company he founded, truly surpasses the hallucinations of even the most imaginative generative AI model.

The revelation that OpenAI, probably the most consequential and certainly the fastest growing tech company in Silicon Valley history, was governed by just 4 staggeringly incompetent directors, felt deeply destablizing.

Thanks to OpenAI, public trust in…well…trustworthy AI seems to be at an all time low. So it’s very lucky that Chad and I had the opportunity to speak with Ben Colman, co-founder and CEO of Reality Defender, a company that provides enterprises with deepfake detection for AI-generated and manipulated content.

Reality Defender sits squarely in the trustworthy AI space, and Ben, formerly a VP at Goldman Sachs, has a unique perspective on protecting trust by defending critical sectors such as finance and banking against an onslaught of synthetic data, fraud, and reality manipulation.