Terrifying deepfake AI alters vids to match your transcript edits

If you can type, you can now create a convincing deepfake. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have made it far easier to create video or audio clips in which a person appears to be saying or doing something they didn't actually say or do. Now, a team of researchers has developed an algorithm that simplifies the process of creating a deepfake to a terrifying degree, making a video's subject "say" any edits made to the clip's transcript -- and even its creators are concerned about what might happen if the tech falls into the wrong hands. The researchers -- who hail from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Adobe -- detail how their new algorithm works in a paper published to Stanford scientist Ohad Fried's website this week. First, the AI analyzes a source video of a person speaking, but it isn't just looking at their words -- it's identifying each tiny unit of sound, or phoneme, the person utters, as well as what they look like when they speak each one.