deepfakes

English TV presenter and record executive Simon Cowell was shocked to find a performer with his own face singing a tune on "America's Got Talent."

Simon Copywall

Okay, that's impressive.

Simon Cowell Shocked by Deepfake Copy of Himself

Elon Musk is itching to meet his Chinese doppelgänger — that is, if the man actually looks like that. 

Seeing Double

"If he is real."

Elon Musk Wants to Meet His Chinese Doppelgänger

As if the possibility that AI might already be conscious wasn’t creepy enough, researchers have announced that AI-generated faces have become so sophisticated that people think they’re more trustworthy than actual humans.

Fake Faces

This could be a problem.

Scientists Warn That New AI-Generated Faces Are Seen as More Trustworthy Than Real Ones

Hour One is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses real people’s likenesses to create AI-generated “characters” for marketing and educational videos.

Uncanny Valley

“We’ve got a queue of people that are dying to become these characters.”

Company Wants to Make Deepfake Advertising Clones of Your Face

Legendary production company Lucasfilm has hired a YouTuber who impressed them with stunning, photorealistic deepfakes of "Stars Wars" franchise characters.

Jobs for the Talented

These deepfakes are even better than Lucasfilm's.

Lucasfilm Hires Random Guy Who Made Amazing Luke Skywalker Deepfake

A new documentary about the life of the legendary TV personality Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in 2018, includes AI recreations of his voice.

Putting the AI in Bourdain

"We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later."

New Anthony Bourdain Documentary Used AI to Recreate His Voice

Authorities suspect that Kremlin operatives have used the deepfakes in order to gain information against Alexei Navalny's opposition movement.

Moscow Mockery

The individual gained access to multiple senior-level meetings. 

Russia Accused of Using Deepfakes to Imitate Political Rivals

Videos uploaded by an account called DeepTomCruise shocked users on the video sharing platform with its uncanny clips of a Tom Cruise playing golf.

Tom'd

Here's how they did it.

Uncanny Deepfake Tom Cruise Fools People on TikTok

Ad studios are relying on deepfake tech rather than live actors for corporate videos due to coronavirus lockdown measures and health risks.

Lights, Camera, Program

And you thought the old corporate training videos were soulless. 

This Company Is Making Corporate Training Videos Using Deepfakes

According to digital forensics expert Hany Farid, the pandemic and BLM movement are even higher priorities for disinformation campaigns than the election.

President Zuck

"There are people who believe that you can kill the virus by blowing a hairdryer down your throat, by drinking silver, by drinking bleach."

Expert: Online Disinfo Now Targeting COVID-19, Black Lives Matter

An impressive new deepfake inserts Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and SpaceX founder Elon Musk into the 1965 pilot episode of storied sci-fi series "Star Trek."