Flooded with fake news? It’s time to worry about ‘deepfake’ videos

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Deepfake is the new frontier in fake news + where artificial intelligence is used to make anyone say or do anything on video. Last week, the usually quiet Barack Obama popped up in an online video calling US president Donald Trump “a total and complete dips**t”.

Digital fakery is not new — we know photos can be morphed, videos can be edited. Face swapping tech is not new either. But now, with deep learning by machines, these tricks can be automated, and the tools are accessible to many more people, says Rishabh Srivastava of Loki Technologies, a machine learning startup.

Current forensic tools won’t detect this fakery: Cyber expert

Flooded with fake news? It’s time to worry about ‘deepfake’ videos - Times of India
 
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