Twitter, Reddit, and some adult sites have already promised to ban deepfake videos. Gal Gadot and Taylor Swift were some of the many victims of this trend. Like taking celebrity images and putting them in pornographic videos. But some have used it for malicious reasons. This deepfake shows Nicholas Cage as Lois Lane in a Superman movie. Of course, a lot of these are silly and goofy. Most are harmless, but they have crept into the darker parts of the internet too.

You feed the program hundreds or thousands of images, and it spits out a fake video.ĭeepfakes have already started spreading through many online communities. Think of it as an advanced version of their Snapchat lenses. Since it's open-sourced, anyone can have access to this technology to make fake videos. FakeApp is a free PC program based on Google's open-sourced machine learning technology. But now anyone can do it with just a simple app. It used to be you had to be a world-class film editor to get this effect. And for the most part, people use them to make goofy videos. But it turns out this fun technology is becoming easy for anyone to use. It's an augmented reality feature that takes someone else's face and puts it on your own. Steve Kovach: You've probably seen this Snapchat filter before. What would happen if world leaders became digital puppets? Following is a full transcript of the video. While the technology still needs works, it's been used to put celebrities into pornographic films. Several social media platforms are filled with these deepfakes. FakeApp can be used to make fake videos of people using images or other videos of them. Now there is a way to make fake videos with nothing more than your laptop. Fake news has been a problem swamping the internet.

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