Mozilla Axes its ‘Deepfake’ AI Detector Add-On

Mozilla is axing another project that was a perfect fit for a company whose founding mission is to make the web better. Next week, on June 26 2025, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector extension, which lets users vet content to gauge if it was likely to be made by a human or generated for a human, will stop working (first reported by Soeren Hentzschel). As an AI-powered tool, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector wasn’t perfect at spectating the wheat from the from statistically-glued collage of plagiarised and paraphrased slop, but it was at least powered by multiple open source models […]

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