The Upside to Deepfake Technology - InformationWeek

Indeed, it's now possible to impersonate practically anybody with astonishing verisimilitude, thanks to the artificial intelligence technology known as generative adversarial networks (GANs). Fortunately, deepfakes have not shown their ugly side in the US presidential election campaign that is now drawing to a close. No one has been able to point to any significant use of GANs to produce deceptive videos and thereby manipulate public opinion. Instead, GANs are increasingly popping up in socially beneficial applications, such as for photorealistic animation and live-action video post-production. As evidenced by several recent industry announcements, next-generation remote collaboration services are using GANs and other AI techniques to improve the quality of rendered streams while improving the productivity of participants on these calls.