McAfee Deepfake Detector
Vendor McAfee, LLC Official site mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector How this card is sourced
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McAfee Deepfake Detector was launched "with a 96% (accuracy) rate" on August 21, 2024, exclusively on select Lenovo AI PCs, per McAfee's own press release (mcafee.com newsroom, read 10 November 2026). The scope is narrow in two ways: the tool is a voice detector that flags "AI-generated audio" in a video playing in the browser, and it runs on-device on the neural processing unit of specific Windows AI PCs rather than as a download or an upload form. The product page read 10 November 2026 names the hardware as "all Intel Core Ultra 200V series processor-based PCs", the 2025 release added the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip and HP OmniBook X Next-Gen AI PCs, and both releases limit it to "English language detection" (mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector, read 10 November 2026). The card joins the detector index as its first on-device voice tool, and how this card is sourced explains why a newsroom figure is quoted rather than ranked.
What the McAfee Deepfake Detector detects
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Content types detected | Voice: ai-generated audio in a video playing in the browser | mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector |
| Generators covered | No generator named: alerts when a video you are watching includes AI-generated audio; models trained on close to 200,000 samples (2024 release) and hundreds of thousands of samples (2025 release) | mcafee.com/en-us/newsroom/press-releases/... |
| Languages | English | mcafee.com/en-us/newsroom/press-releases/... |
| Input limits | On-device browser extension bundled with McAfee on selected Windows AI PCs: Deepfake Detector spots deepfakes for you right in your browser, without any extra clicks; alerts within seconds when a video you are watching includes AI-generated audio, and the extension can show details on when a video might have a mix of authentic and AI-generated audio (product page). Hardware: the press releases say the models perform the entire analysis directly on the PC on the processor's Neural Processing Unit (NPU) of select Lenovo AI PCs (2024) and HP Copilot+ PCs (2025); the product page names Intel Core Ultra 200V series processor-based PCs. Language: available for English language detection (both releases); site footnote: Video Scams is currently trained only on English audio. Scanning non-English audio in videos might give less accurate results. No manual upload (without the need for manual video uploads), no file formats, no quota and no standalone download are published; consumers opt in. | mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector |
| Free tier | No free tier as a standalone product: the 2024 Lenovo release gave Lenovo AI PC customers a free 30-day trial with US pricing starting at $9.99 for the first year; on 10 November 2026 the Scam Detector page says All McAfee plans include automatic alerts for text, email, and video scams, and the product page sells McAfee+ plans (Get protection now) | mcafee.com/en-us/scam-detector |
| Integrations | Browser extension on Windows AI PCs with an NPU (The Deepfake Detector web extension shows you exactly which parts of the audio are fake, product page FAQ), Preinstalled on select Lenovo AI PCs (2024) and the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip and HP OmniBook X Next-Gen AI PCs (2025); Intel Core Ultra 200V series PCs (product page), Video scam alerts inside McAfee Scam Detector for McAfee plans (Scam Detector page) | mcafee.com/en-us/newsroom/press-releases/... |
| Data retention | Product page: As for your privacy, McAfee doesn't store any of this audio or browsing history. Your listening and viewing are your own. FAQ: Does Deepfake Detector track what I'm watching? No. We don't store any of your audio or browsing history. Privacy Notice (Last Updated: January 2026), Personal Information We Collect: Our AI-Powered video scam protection can detect and notify you when a video you are playing on your device is likely generated or manipulated by AI. The detection process will have access to any publicly available site from which you are playing the video input, but will run on your device and will not store any audio or video data. You can disable this feature at any time. Section 8, Retention of Personal Information: We will keep your Personal Information for the minimum period necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice, namely (i) for as long as you are a registered subscriber or user of our products [...]. No period is stated because the audio is not stored. | mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-support/policy/... |
| Launch year | 2024 | mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector |
| Ownership | McAfee, LLC, Corporate Headquarters 6220 America Center Drive, San Jose, CA 95002 USA; registered in the California Secretary of State's business entity registry under number 201713210072 (site footer, Legal Terms). Launched on Aug 21, 2024 exclusively on select Lenovo AI PCs (press release: McAfee Launches World's First Automatic and AI-powered Deepfake Detector Exclusively on Select New Lenovo AI PCs) and extended on Jan 3, 2025 to the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip and HP OmniBook X Next-Gen AI PCs (press release). The product page (read 10 November 2026) states McAfee Deepfake Detector is available on all Intel Core Ultra 200V series processor-based PCs. The Scam Detector page (read the same day) says All McAfee plans include automatic alerts for text, email, and video scams, and the site footnote names the feature Video Scams. | mcafee.com/en-us/newsroom/press-releases/... |
The product page describes an alert, not a verdict on demand: "It sends you alerts when a video you are watching includes AI-generated audio. Alerts within seconds help you quickly distinguish between what's real and what's fake when you watch videos online. Deepfake Detector spots deepfakes for you right in your browser, without any extra clicks" (mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector, read 10 November 2026). The method is stated in one sentence: "advanced AI detection techniques, including transformer-based Deep Neural Network (DNN) models" trained "to detect and notify you when audio in a video is likely generated or manipulated by AI". The FAQ adds that "the Deepfake Detector web extension shows you exactly which parts of the audio are fake", and the children's scenario says the extension "can show details on when a video might have a mix of authentic and AI-generated audio". No generator is named; the 2024 release says the models were "trained on close to 200,000 samples and counting" and the 2025 release "hundreds of thousands of samples".
The hardware is the defining field. The 2024 release says the models "perform the entire identification process, known as inference, directly on the PC, maximizing on-device processing to keep private user data off the cloud", leveraging "the Neural Processing Unit (NPU)" of select Lenovo AI PCs; the January 3, 2025 release repeats this for "the processor's NPU on the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip and HP OmniBook X Next-Gen AI PCs" (mcafee.com newsroom, read 10 November 2026). The vendor is McAfee, LLC of 6220 America Center Drive, San Jose, California (site footer). The sibling cards are Intel FakeCatcher, the other detector tied to a chip maker and a status record with no product, and the Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector, the browser extension that works on any Chrome tab; the offline detectors question is where on-device inference belongs.
Limits and plans
| Plan | Price | Limits | Checked on |
|---|---|---|---|
| McAfee plans (Scam Detector, video scams) | Price loads by script; not read | All McAfee plans include automatic alerts for text, email, and video scams (Scam Detector page, read 10 November 2026); the McAfee+ plan page renders its prices with JavaScript (This page requires JavaScript for offer personalization and checkout actions), so no plan price is recorded. The site footnote's free-trial terms read $39.99 for the first term and a renewal price (currently $109.99/yr). |
The stated limits are a language and a hardware list. "McAfee Deepfake Detector is available for English language detection" on the named PCs in the US, UK and Australia (2024) and the US, UK, Australia, India and Ireland (2025), and the site footnote under "Additional Terms Specific to Scam Detector" reads: "Video Scams is currently trained only on English audio. Scanning non-English audio in videos might give less accurate results" (mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector, read 10 November 2026). There is no manual upload ("without the need for manual video uploads", 2025 release), no file format list, no quota and no standalone download; consumers "who opt in" are alerted. The language count on this card is one.
The price has moved from a bundle to a plan. The 2024 release stated: "Lenovo AI PC customers receive a free 30-day trial of McAfee Deepfake Detector with US pricing starting at $9.99 for the first year" (mcafee.com newsroom, read 10 November 2026). On 10 November 2026 the Scam Detector page states "All McAfee plans include automatic alerts for text, email, and video scams", and the McAfee+ plan page renders its prices with a script ("This page requires JavaScript for offer personalization and checkout actions"), so the plan table records one plan row with no price and the 2024 launch price stays in this paragraph with its date (the historical offer is not a plan a reader can buy on 10 November 2026) (mcafee.com/en-us/scam-detector, read 10 November 2026). No API exists for the feature.
Retention is the clearest field on the card. The product page says "McAfee doesn't store any of this audio or browsing history. Your listening and viewing are your own", and the Privacy Notice (Last Updated: January 2026) states: "Our AI-Powered video scam protection can detect and notify you when a video you are playing on your device is likely generated or manipulated by AI. The detection process will have access to any publicly available site from which you are playing the video input, but will run on your device and will not store any audio or video data. You can disable this feature at any time" (mcafee.com Privacy Notice, read 10 November 2026). The retention rank field carries zero days on that clause, the reading the index gave Hive's stated zero, and the card sits in the first table of the data retention ranking.
What the vendor claims
Press release of Aug 21, 2024: McAfee's powerful AI technology, built with privacy in mind, equips consumers with advanced AI detection, with a 96% (accuracy) rate, to combat the rise in AI-generated scams, deepfakes, and misinformation. The same release: Trained on close to 200,000 samples and counting. The product page (read 10 November 2026) prints no figure; its FAQ answers Is Deepfake Detector 100% accurate? with No model is 100% accurate, yet we strive to improve our accuracy to provide our strongest protection against deepfake scams. No dataset, test date or method accompanies the 96%.
The 96% lives in the newsroom, not on the product page. The August 21, 2024 release states: "McAfee's powerful AI technology, built with privacy in mind, equips consumers with advanced AI detection, with a 96% (accuracy) rate, to combat the rise in AI-generated scams, deepfakes, and misinformation" (mcafee.com newsroom, read 10 November 2026). No dataset, sample count beyond the training figure, test date or method accompanies it, and the 2025 HP release and the live product page print no figure at all. The product page FAQ answers "Is Deepfake Detector 100% accurate?" with "No model is 100% accurate, yet we strive to improve our accuracy to provide our strongest protection against deepfake scams" (mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detector, read 10 November 2026).
The caveats are the vendor's own: the English-only footnote quoted above, "No AI is perfect, but we're committed to improving its reliability for your protection", and the FAQ's "No model is 100% accurate". No false positive rate is published. The claim gap field records the 96% with its source and date and computes no gap, because no indexed study scored the tool; that is the treatment the index gave Intel FakeCatcher, whose 96% also comes from a 2022 newsroom post.
What independent studies found
No record in the studies index tested the McAfee Deepfake Detector, read 10 November 2026 in the data file. The two speech records, ASVspoof 5 and SAFE 2025, score anonymised challenge entrants, so the study count on this card is zero and the false positive, false negative and robustness fields carry no value.
Until a primary source scores the tool, the 96% is the vendor's, and the card ranks on neither accuracy nor error. A reader who wants a voice check on a machine without an Intel Core Ultra 200V processor or one of the named Lenovo and HP models has, on this card, nothing to run; the Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector and the ElevenLabs AI Speech Classifier are the free browser-side voice checks on the register that need no particular hardware.
Where the McAfee Deepfake Detector appears in the index
Rankings
- AIDI-R-04AI detectors ranked by languages supported
- AIDI-R-06AI detectors ranked by stated data retention
- AIDI-R-07AI image, voice, video and code detectors ranked by independent studies
- AIDI-R-11AI detectors ranked by named integration surfaces
- AIDI-R-20AI detectors ranked by launch year, with every change of hands and withdrawal the cards record
The card appears on AI detectors by content type with voice as its only column, in studies by modality with zero records against one non-text type, in the data retention ranking at zero days on the Privacy Notice's "will not store any audio or video data", in the languages ranking at one, and on the platform integrations ranking with one surface, the browser extension, read 10 November 2026 in the data file. It is absent from the study-based rankings, which need an indexed record, from the API and free tier rankings, because neither exists, and from the claim gap ranking, because no study pairs with the 96%. Every detector card on the register shows the same fourteen fields, so an on-device voice alert bundled with a security plan sits beside the priced text detectors.
Questions about the McAfee Deepfake Detector
What does the McAfee Deepfake Detector detect?
AI-generated audio in a video playing in the browser, with an alert "within seconds" and a view of "which parts of the audio are fake", per the product page read 10 November 2026; it does not analyse text, images or video frames, and it is trained on English audio only.
Which PCs run the McAfee Deepfake Detector?
Select Lenovo AI PCs (August 2024), the HP OmniBook Ultra Flip and HP OmniBook X Next-Gen AI PCs (January 2025), and "all Intel Core Ultra 200V series processor-based PCs" per the product page read 10 November 2026; inference runs on the PC's NPU.
How accurate does McAfee say the detector is?
"A 96% (accuracy) rate" in the August 21, 2024 launch release, read 10 November 2026, with no dataset or test date; the live product page states only that "No model is 100% accurate". No indexed study tested it.
How much does the McAfee Deepfake Detector cost?
$9.99 for the first year after a 30-day trial for Lenovo AI PC customers at the 2024 launch; on 10 November 2026 the Scam Detector page says video scam alerts are included in all McAfee plans, whose prices load by script and were not read.
Does McAfee keep the audio the detector checks?
No, by its own statements: the product page says "We don't store any of your audio or browsing history" and the Privacy Notice (Last Updated: January 2026) says the detection "will run on your device and will not store any audio or video data", read 10 November 2026.
Sources and revisions
Sources
- mcafee.com/ai/deepfake-detectorRead 10 November 2026
- mcafee.com/en-us/newsroom/press-releases/...Read 10 November 2026
- mcafee.com/en-us/newsroom/press-releases/...Read 10 November 2026
- mcafee.com/blogs/internet-security/mcafee...Read 10 November 2026
- mcafee.com/en-us/scam-detectorRead 10 November 2026
- mcafee.com/en-us/identity-theft/protectio...Read 10 November 2026
- mcafee.com/en-us/consumer-support/policy/...Read 10 November 2026
Revision log
- Card created2026-11-10: merge ruling (page-map 1r): the 2024 launch offer stays in the prose and leaves the plan table
