Deconstructing Deepfakes

For our February AI Ethics Twitter Chat, we invited expert guest, Dr. Brandie Nonnecke, Founding Director, Citris Policy Lab at UC Berkeley to discuss "Deconstructing Deepfakes". Mia Dand: Dr. Nonnecke, Let's start off with the basics, what are deepfakes? Dr. Brandie Nonnecke: "Deepfakes" are deceptive audio or visual media created with AI to depict real people saying or doing things they did not. The term "deepfake" is a portmanteau of "deep learning" (a type of machine learning) & "fake". Don't confuse deepfakes w/ "cheap fakes" or "shallow fakes", which are created w/out AI.