Don't believe your eyes: Exploring the positives and negatives of deepfakes - AI ML Community India's Fastest Growing Data Science, AI and ML Community

In 2018 the Reddit community r/deepfakes gained international attention thanks to a piece of investigative journalism by Samantha Cole, deputy editor at VICE. Members of the forum had been using a burgeoning technology to superimpose celebrities' faces onto pornographic videos. For the general public – and no doubt the unwitting stars – it was a shock. Most were unaware this technology existed. Very few believed it was possible to produce such realistic footage.