The fake in deepfake is transparent: deepfakes are not real they're fake. Alex Hern, The Guardian (London), 25 Jan. … The creation of face-swapped pornography rapidly scaled up in late December, when another Reddit user (going by the name 'deepfaceapp') released a desktop app designed to let consumers create their own clips. A community on the social news site Reddit has spent months creating and sharing the images, which were initially made by a solo hobbyist who went by the name ' deepfake'.

The first instance of deepfake in Nexis, a database of thousands of news publications, is as the name of the person who first made these videos in the article the videos themselves are referred to with descriptors like 'face-swapped pornography':Īdvanced machine learning technology is being used to create fake pornography featuring real actors and pop stars, pasting their faces over existing performers in explicit movies…. Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron, Lawfare, 21 Feb. In early sources deepfake was used to refer specifically to pornography, but it was quickly understood that the word's referent could in fact be any video:ĭeep fakes raise the stakes for the “fake news” phenomenon in dramatic fashion (quite literally). headline, The Independent (United Kingdom), ' Deepfakes' are videos that use AI technology to paste a celebrity face onto a different body.įake porn videos featuring celebrities deleted from the internet in attempt to stop ' deepfake' footage Very convincing videos can be made with just a simple piece of software The term (also styled as deep fake) started appearing in major newspapers and magazines in early 2018:

The 'deep' in 'deepfake' is likely related to a process called 'deep learning.' 'Deepfake' Origins

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