These full-body deepfakes are like nothing we've ever seen

Deepfakes are manipulated and misleading videos that use deep learning technology to produce sophisticated doctored videos. Normally this involved splicing someone's face onto an existing video, often making it seem like a celebrity or public figure did something that never happened. Now the tools exist to do the same thing with someone's entire body, like a digital puppeteer. That's thanks to a new technique out of Heidelberg University that was recently published to Github and presented at September's European Conference on Computer Vision -- a step forward for deepfakes that has escaped mainstream scrutiny, but that could lead to the next generation of altered footage. The technology isn't perfect yet, but it's a worrisome preview of what could come.