Meaning of deepfake | Babel Free

Definitions

A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.

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Examples

“Did you see that leaked sex tape with the actress? It turned out to be a deepfake, but it looked so realistic!”

“The thing is that normal people might try to use to harass other people, specially women, but I don't think this technology will be so advanced that you won't be able to recognize it's a fake video, so the majority of people who try to say a deep fake is real will be looked as an idiot, a pervert and probably reported.”

“These deepfakes went in a completely unexpected direction”

“I've completed a desktop app /w GUI to create deepfakes. Here is a what it looks like. For anyone unfamiliar with this subreddit, deepfakes are neural network-generated faceswap videos created with a machine learning algorithm designed by /u/deepfakes.”

“For example, images of the actress Scarlett Johansson have been used to create a number of deepfake pornographic videos, one of which had been viewed over 1.5 million times on a popular SEIM site by the end of 2018 (Harwell, 2018).”

“By banning deepfakes before the technology becomes widespread, Facebook is trying to calm lawmakers, academics and political campaigns who remain frustrated by how the company handles political posts and videos about politics and politicians.”

“[…] the tragic shooting in Minnesota has brought that issue to a boil while demonstrating that we don’t need A.I. deepfakes for maximal polarization. It turns out that people with different beliefs staring at the exact same video clips can convince themselves not only that their interpretation of a tragedy is correct but that the rival interpretation is radical, deluded, monstrous.”

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