Microsoft researcher describes two new deepfake methods and their risks

Eric Joel Horvitz is a computer scientist and director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond. In a new research paper, he describes two new deepfake methods and their far-reaching risks. In the research paper, "On the Horizon: Interactive and Compositional Deepfakes," Horvitz describes two new deepfake methods that he believes are technically possible in the future and "that we can expect to come into practice with costly implications for society." "Interactive deepfakes" is what Horvitz calls multimodal deepfake clones of real people that are indistinguishable from the real person during video phone calls, for example. Current deepfake systems are mostly limited to exchanging faces – and even that offers only limited interaction possibilities.