Artificial intelligence and the worrying use of the deepfake TheArticle

As is the case with many technological developments, 'deepfakes' -- videos in which someone who did not originally appear in the clip is rendered into it using artificial intelligence (AI) -- largely started in the world of pornography. Viewers, should they so desire, can now watch videos of their favourite musicians and film stars "in action," although that celebrity was never in that video. In these cases, increasingly sophisticated tools are used to put the musicians and film stars' faces onto pre-existing pornographic videos. There can obviously be a sinister, non-celebrity side to this too. The recent Sam Bourne novel, To Kill The Truth, features a protagonist Maggie Costello who appears in such a video as part of a cruel plot to undermine her.