Deepfake: Weapon of mass disinformation

Nothing seems real anymore; nothing is real anymore. Move over Photoshop, Deepfake is here. Just before elections, videos of politicians go viral on the Internet, saying and doing crazy things that they actually didn’t. Celebrity artists, who never do pornography, find their videos all over the web. Who could believe that even videos could be doctored?

It is the dawning of the age of deepfakes. The term comes from deep learning, and, of course, fake. Deep learning is a specialised branch of machine learning based on learning data representations like speech, audio and image recognition. They belong to the overall area of artificial intelligence (AI).