Ahead of 2020, Beware the Deepfake from deepfakes Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 94 sec
✓ Published: 10-Jul-2019

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“We are crossing over into an era where we have to be skeptical of what we see on video,” says John Villasenor, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Villasenor is talking about deepfakes—videos that are digitally manipulated in imperceptible ways, often using a machine-learning technique that superimposes existing images or audio onto source material. The technology’s verisimilitude is alarming, Villasenor argues, because it undermines our perception of truth and could have disa