Why business leaders should be concerned about AI-powered face swapping technology

TechRepublic's Dan Patterson talked with Michael Fauscette, CRO of software solutions company, G2 Crowd about the threat posed by video face-swapping technology. Patterson: Michael, let's talk a little bit about, it may seem like a funny novelty, but the serious threats involved with AI-based face swapping, how does this technology work? Fauscette: Well, it's something that's evolved very quickly over the last I would say, probably a year. And it was originally designed just basically a project was somebody playing around with technology based on artificial intelligence machine learning, and using face swap sort of algorithm that would let you cut somebody's face out of the video and put it onto the somebody's else's body. Of course, as you'd expect, the first trials of that were pretty rough and pretty easy to tell.