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Heard of DeepFakes? Face and/or body swapping of celebrities. It’s the product of deep learning-driven facial image manipulation and has become a thing online. In the last year convincing fake videos known as DeepFakes have been condemned as a threat to our ability to perceive reality, and a danger to democracy. The alarm is that invented events created by manipulated ...

Jon Peddie

Heard of DeepFakes? Face and/or body swapping of celebrities. It’s the product of deep learning-driven facial image manipulation and has become a thing online. In the last year convincing fake videos known as DeepFakes have been condemned as a threat to our ability to perceive reality, and a danger to democracy. The alarm is that invented events created by manipulated videos represent what is being called fakenews, and that will alter elections and affect civic engagement. The gullible and too lazy to fact-check public will, it is feared, no longer be able to determine if such offerings reflect reality. Adding
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