TechRepublic's Dan Patterson talked with Michael Fauscette, CRO of software solutions company, G2 Crowd about the threat posed by video face-swapping technology. Patterson: Michael, let's talk a little bit about, it may seem like a funny novelty, but the serious threats involved with AI-based face swapping, how does this technology work? Fauscette: Well, it's something that's evolved very quickly over the last I would say, probably a year. And it was originally designed just basically a project was somebody playing around with technology based on artificial intelligence machine learning, and using face swap sort of algorithm that would let you cut somebody's face out of the video and put it onto the somebody's else's body. Of course, as you'd expect, the first trials of that were pretty rough and pretty easy to tell.

New concerns over how artificial intelligence videos could spread fake news and even prompt a war. Forget fake news for a moment. Artificial intelligence is now able to generate a convincing video of a celebrity or public figure. For illicit purposes, these videos are called deepfakes and show a celebrity superimposed into an adult movie. A programmer finds existing video and audio for a known figure, then the AI takes over and creates a brand new version.