AI can create realistic deepfake videos from as little as one photo, or even artwork [Top 100 journal articles of 2019]

This article is part 2 of a series reviewing selected papers from Altmetric's list of the top 100 most-discussed scholarly works of 2019. Deepfake is a term for videos and presentations enhanced by artificial intelligence and other modern technology to present falsified results. One of the best examples of deepfakes involves the use of image processing to produce video of celebrities, politicians or others saying or doing things that they never actually said or did. A September 2019 Deeptrace report1 on the state of deepfakes has found that since its emergence in late 2017, the phenomenon of deepfakes has been developing very quickly, with rapidly growing societal impact and technological sophistication. At the time of report publication, there were 14,678 deepfake videos online, 96% of which had pornographic content. While their use in a pornographic context continues to grow, deepfakes are also increasingly being used for the purpose of political disinformation.