AIs created our fake video dystopia but now they could help fix it

"President Trump is a complete and total dipshit." So announced Barack Obama, in a video released on YouTube earlier this year. Uncharacteristic, certainly, but it appeared very real. It was, however, a falsified video made -- by BuzzFeed and the actor and director Jordan Peele -- with the help of artificial intelligence. Deepfakes, as they have been dubbed, are the most recent -- and perhaps most troubling -- manifestation in the evolving arms race of digital disinformation.