Scarily realistic 'deep video portraits' could take fake news to the next level

If you think it's been a problem up to this point, the fight against fake news is about to get a whole lot harder. That is thanks to artificial intelligence technology which is making the creation of so-called "deep fake" videos more convincing at a frankly terrifying rate. The latest development comes from an international team of researchers, lead by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Informatics. They have created a deep-learning A.I. system which is able to edit the facial expression of actors to accurately match dubbed voices. In addition, it can tweak gaze and head poses in videos, and even animate a person's eyes and eyebrows to match up with their mouths -- representing a step forward from previous work in this area.