The CEO thought he was speaking to his boss, a German executive.Ī 2019 deepfake video of former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi insulting other politicians caused outrage in Italy before it was revealed to be a manipulated video for an Italian satirical show.
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Public figures such as politicians or CEOs are especially vulnerable to this process because of their frequent public addresses in 2019, scammers used a voice skin to trick a CEO of a U.K.-based energy firm into sending funds to a Hungarian supplier. Of the videos studied, 99 per cent involved swapping female celebrities' faces onto porn stars without their consent.ĭeepfake technology can also be used to create convincing but ultimately fake pictures from scratch, and audio can be faked as well in a process known as “voice skins” - where someone’s voice is cloned and then manipulated to “say” what the user wants it to.
A 2019 report from the AI firm Deeptrace Labs found more than 14,500 deepfake videos online in September of that year – 96 per cent of them pornographic in nature. “Especially when people want to misuse the technology.”Īn AI process known as “deep learning” is used to manipulate photos and videos to create deepfake media. “I’m concerned that it’s getting easier to do it,” Ume said. Graphic artist Chris Ume, the mastermind behind the Tom Cruise TikTok deepfake, told CTV News that when he started making deepfake videos it was just to “have good fun.”īut now as manipulated media continues to make headlines, his views have changed. Whether it’s a viral video of “ Tom Cruise” doing a magic trick or "Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg" boasting about having “total control of billions of people’s stolen data,” deepfake videos have the capacity to cause real harm to people who fall for their deception.Ī Pennsylvania woman was charged last weekend with allegedly making deepfake videos of girls on a cheerleading team her daughter used to belong to – the videos showed the girls nude, smoking or partying – in an attempt to get them kicked off the team. As fake videos generated by AI continue to become more convincing, what was once a tool to share laughs on the internet has grown into a worrying sector of digital media.