60 Deepfakes
Deepfakes (a word made by blending “deep learning” and “fake”) is manipulated media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness. Some of the technology used to produce deepfakes is astonishing in its believability. Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level.
Watch this segment from 60 Minutes about deepfakes (13:50)
Watch CNN’s Inside the Pentagon’s race against deepfake videos
Do these AI-created fake people look real to you?
Watch this TED Talk about identity theft (16:54)
Visit Photofunia to create a two-word movie marquee for a movie about your life
Consider this:
- Of all the negative outcomes, what do you think is the greatest threat to identity with deepfakes?
- What are the implications of not being sure you can believe your own eyes when you watch news coverage?
- Is there any upside to deepfakes besides parody?
- Share your movie marquee image with the class, and comment on two classmates’ marquees.