As Mark Zuckerberg has now discovered, digital trickery can make anyone say anything. It’s time to stop laughing along
“Deepfake”: it sounds like the title of a James Bond film. But deepfakes are becoming more dangerous, and frequently more sexually explicit, than anything 007 might get up to. A deepfake (the deep is taken from machine “deep learning”) is a computer-manipulated video, and the next frontier of conspiracy theory and fake news.
Lots of us have been ringing the alarm bell for a while over deepfakes, but the nerdy language that explains their invention and evolution has perhaps meant that people haven’t paid attention. But this week an exquisitely realistic deepfake of Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, uploaded to Instagram (a Facebook-owned platform), cut through.
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