Be (Very) Worried about the Tom Cruise Deepfakes - Shelly Palmer

After creating a convincing viral series of Tom Cruise deepfakes on TikTok, VFX specialist Chris Ume told The Verge, "You can't do it by just pressing a button. That's important, that's a message I want to tell people." He went on to say that each clip took weeks of work using the open-source DeepFaceLab algorithm as well as established video editing tools. The key takeaway, and the title of the article, was Tom Cruise deepfake creator says public shouldn't be worried about'one-click fakes'. You should be extremely worried about deepfakes, the technology that empowers their creation, and the exponential speed of innovation.