ACE relied on Crispy Dog to capture the Deepfake Detection Challenge Live ’26 — a four-day hackathon at Microsoft’s offices in Paddington, bringing government, industry and researchers together to tackle the growing threat of deepfake technology.
The centrepiece was an explosive opening presentation film innovatively produced entirely with AI. Crispy Dog developed a concept that traced the evolution of the digital image, generating high quality AI deepfakes of the ACE team and collaborators and combining them with motion graphics, bespoke music and sound design. We then produced five further AI scenario films in the same fast-paced style, each launching a stage of the challenge.
Across the four days we photographed and filmed the event — key personnel, participants and reportage — and recorded stakeholder interviews for a short overview film. Our team was also on hand throughout to demonstrate the AI technology behind the films to stakeholders, broadcast media and MPs, including Jess Phillips. Ahead of the event, we also produced a package of fake and real images, video and audio used as collateral during the challenge.
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