A Look at Deepfakes in 2020 Lionbridge AI

Deepfakes are synthetic media, usually videos, created with deep learning technology. By manipulating images, videos, and voices of real people, a deepfake can portray someone doing things they never did, or saying things they never said. By feeding a machine learning model thousands of target images, a deepfake algorithm can learn the details of a person's face. With enough training data, the algorithm can then predict what that person's face would look like when mimicking the expressions of someone else. A similar process is used for training deepfake algorithms to mimic the accent, intonation, and tone of a person's voice.