Technology

Faking it

Deepfakes are a problem. We're the solution.

19 March 2020

"Imagine this for a second - one man with total control of billions of people's stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures. I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me whoever controls the data controls the future."

So said Mark Zuckerberg. Only he didn't - that was a quote from a deepfake video, a piece of footage that looks precisely like ‘the Zuck’, but literally puts words in his mouth. It's incredibly realistic. Deepfakes are very advanced image manipulations, bending footage to a new narrative.

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