How Deepfakes Make Disinformation More Real Than Ever

One video shows Barack Obama using an obscenity to refer to U.S. President Donald Trump. Another features a different former president, Richard Nixon, performing a comedy routine. But neither video is real: The first was created by filmmaker Jordan Peele, the second by Jigsaw, a technology incubator within Alphabet, Inc. Both are examples of deepfakes, videos or audios that use artificial intelligence to make someone appear to do or say something they didn't. The technology is a few years old and getting better.