Baby Elon Musk, rapping Kim Kardashian: Welcome to the world of silly deepfakes

Deepfakes have only been around for a few years; the first known videos, posted to Reddit in 2017, featured celebrities' faces swapped with those of porn stars. Shales got interested in making them himself early this year, and in February released his first deepfake: in it, he plastered the face of actor Nicolas Cage onto Elon Musk's body to make it appear as if Cage, rather than Musk, was smoking marijuana during a podcast interview with comedian Joe Rogan. Shales admits it isn't a great video; the resulting face is more of a morph than a swap, he said. And the voice is still unmistakably Musk's. But Shales kept going and quickly got better.