Deepfakes -- the murky next-gen threat coming to Asia - Tech Wire Asia

We've all seen those videos of face-swapped individuals, often a parody of a popular film with a different celebrity's face superimposed over a another's via the power of artificial intelligence (AI). These videos and images have come to be known as deepfakes, and while many are indeed for harmless fun, the incredible realism of these videos leaves plenty of room for malicious behavior. Deep Trace Lab, a deepfake detection technology firm, found that the amount of detectable deepfake videos on the internet more than doubled to 49,081 in just the six months between January and June 2020. Not only that, but while deepfake prevalence was picking in the West last year, the first instances of convincing deepfakes here in Asia are starting to surface. The reported incident of face-swapping was reportedly in a Chinese TV series, when actress Liu Lu was blacklisted in the country, and her contract terminated.