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Seth Layton
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3ranked-venue papers
2as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-7989-7350ORCID · corroborated
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Security and privacy · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | AI Wrote My Paper and All I Got was This False Negative:* Measuring the Efficacy of Commercial AI Text Detectors
Seth Layton, Bernardo B. P. Medeiros, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Traynor |
SP | 1 |
| 2024 | "Better Be Computer or I'm Dumb": A Large-Scale Evaluation of Humans as Audio Deepfake DetectorsabstractAudio deepfakes represent a rising threat to trust in our daily communications. In response to this, the research community has developed a wide array of detection techniques aimed at preventing such attacks from deceiving users. Unfortunately, the creation of these defenses has generally overlooked the most important element of the system - the user themselves. As such, it is not clear whether current mechanisms augment, hinder, or simply contradict human classification of deepfakes. In this paper, we perform the first large-scale user study on deepfake detection. We recruit over 1,200 users and present them with samples from the three most widely-cited deepfake datasets. We then quantitatively compare performance and qualitatively conduct thematic analysis to motivate and understand the reasoning behind user decisions and differences from machine classifications. Our results show that users correctly classify human audio at significantly higher rates than machine learning models, and rely on linguistic features and intuition when performing classification. However, users are also regularly misled by pre-conceptions about the capabilities of generated audio (e.g., that accents and background sounds are indicative of humans). Finally, machine learning models suffer from significantly higher false positive rates, and experience false negatives that humans correctly classify when issues of quality or robotic characteristics are reported. By analyzing user behavior across multiple deepfake datasets, our study demonstrates the need to more tightly compare user and machine learning performance, and to target the latter towards areas where humans are less likely to successfully identify threats. Kevin Warren, Tyler Tucker, Anna Crowder, Daniel Olszewski, Allison Lu, Caroline Fedele, Magdalena Pasternak, Seth Layton, Kevin R. B. Butler, Carrie Gates, Patrick Traynor |
CCS | 8 |
| 2024 | SoK: The Good, The Bad, and The Unbalanced: Measuring Structural Limitations of Deepfake Media Datasets
Seth Layton, Tyler Tucker, Daniel Olszewski, Kevin Warren, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Traynor |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |