Deepfakes Overview
Explore some use cases of deepfakes.
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Manipulating videos and photographs to edit artifacts has been in practice for quite a long time. In movies like Forrest Gump or Fast and Furious 7, the scenes with John F. Kennedy or Paul Walker in their respective movies were fake and edited into the movies as required.
In the movie Forrest Gump, the scene where Gump meets John F. Kennedy was created using complex visual effects and archival footage to ensure high-quality results. Hollywood studios, spy agencies from across the world, and media outlets have been using editing tools such as Photoshop, After Effects, and complex custom visual effects/CGI (computer-generated imagery) pipelines to come up with such compelling results. While the results have been more or less believable in most instances, it takes a huge amount of manual effort and time to edit each and every detail, such as scene lighting, face, eyes, and lip movements, as well as shadows, for every frame of the scene.
Along the same lines, there is a high chance you might have come across a Buzzfeed