Deepfakes

 Deepfakes

  • What is Deepfakes?
Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image ot video is replaced with someone else's likeness. While the act of faking content is not new, deepfakes leverage powerful techniques from machine learning and AI to manipulate ot generate visual and audio content with a high potencial to deceive. 
  • History of Deepfakes
Deepfake technology has been developed by reasearchers at academic institutions beginning in the 1990s, and later by amateurs in online communities. 
  • Commercial development in Deepfakes
In January 2018, a proprietary desktop application called FakeApp was launched. This app allows users to easily create and share videos with their faces swapped with each other. 

Larger companies are also starting to use deepfakes. The mobile app giant Momo created the application Zao which allows users to superimpose their face on television and movie clips with a single picture. 
  • Applications in Deepfakes
  1. Blackmail
  2. Politics
  3. Art
  4. Acting
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