Deepfake Videos Are Getting Terrifyingly Real

Artificially intelligent face swap videos, known as deepfakes, are more sophisticated and accessible than ever.

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Digital Producer
Emily Zendt

Production Assistance
Rishya Narayanan
Taylor White

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Additional Footage
University of Washington
ACM Publications
University of Albany, SUNY
Collin Frend
Caroline Chan, MIT

Music
APM

[steveos]

This also works in reverse. People can now do or say something wrong and just claim that any footage of them doing it is a deep fake.

[onyx]

Steve Buscemi totally rocked that red dress. 🤣

[ViciousAlienKlown]

This is how these swamp creatures will claim innocence.

[drivethrupoet]

hmmm... funny how YT blew the dust off this one and tossed it into our recommends at a time when there's talk of some very incriminating videos coming out

[abhishekbhatia]

YES! NOW WE CAN HAVE NICHOLAS CAGE IN EVERY MOVIE.

[BolinFoto]

This also gives someone the "plausible deniability" card to play.
"It wasn't me, it was a deepfake..."

[jameswill]

"Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear"... Best advice my father ever gave.

[cw]

The world has screwed itself and may not even be aware of it.

[Melusi_Nyathi]

We are being conditioned to doubt reality when it drops.

[adrc]

Things this'll be used for:
• -Actual presidential messages-
• Memes
• Porn

[dugnice]

Just one more reason NOT to trust the media.

[scocassovegetus]

Imagine what the CIA etc. has. They can do a video call to you pretending to be your friend and you wouldn't be able to tell.

[jaywalt]

The problem is people believe everything they see in videos and media without questioning in most cases

[NimW]

Thank god there's piano music so I know what I'm supposed to feel.

[nocluu]

Pushing this tells me your getting ready to deny some very damaging videos coming out soon.

[iNSANEcOOkieMONstEr]

We are in serious trouble. No... correct that ... we have been in serious trouble for a long time. We just didn't know it.

[Blind_Side]

Buschemi's face on Lawrence is some high quality art to me

[ConnectTheDotsProper]

At this point, if you're use to seeing deepfakes, or if you just edit all the time, you can still spot it. Very soon though, I have no doubt that it will be undetectable..

[dodieodie]

As we move into a world of facial recognition security, will we start seeing ourselves doing things that we never did?

[themessenger]

And people still believe the news LOL. Wake up people