While just a few years ago artificial intelligence needed many individual image files of a person to create good deepfakes, a photo from a public social media account is now sufficient to create deepfakes.
AI and deepfake: what is it actually?
Deepfakes are realistic-looking media content created with the help of artificial intelligence . This technique is used, for example, to replace faces in video sequences with faces of other people. Deepfakes look like real recordings of a person - but they are fake. Some deepfake methods work in real time .
Increasingly easier to create fake videos and fake images using AI
Free face apps can be used to edit your own face or the face of other people into video clips and well-known film scenes. This technique is face swapping . These clips can be created and distributed in surprisingly good quality in a matter of seconds. These technical possibilities take image manipulation to the next level.
What are deepfakes used for?
Deepfakes can be used for various purposes. The possible applications range from satire and entertainment, to deliberate disinformation and propaganda , to the targeted discrediting of individual people . Fake news in particular can be made even more realistic through this simple type of image manipulation.
Deepfakes are also created with the help of AI in cyberbullying. The heads of those affected are “mounted” in porn videos and distributed via messenger.
Fraud with deepfakes
There have already been incidents of scammers using this technique on dating apps . In online dating sites, criminals try to get other people to share erotic material with them and then use it to blackmail them. The perpetrators pose as attractive men or women and use deepfake video chats to gain the trust of potential victims . This practice is known as sextortion.
From a legal perspective, deepfakes violate personal rights or constitute insults without the appropriate authorization from the people concerned. There are now programs that also do this
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