A new video shows actor and impressionist Jim Meskimen transforming into 20 celebrities thanks to deepfake technology. In the video, developed by deepfake creator Sham00k, Meskimen can be seen reciting a poem titled "Pity the Poor Impressionist" while taking on the faces of the celebrities he impersonates. Meskimen's impressions include everyone from Hollywood A-listers Robert Deniro, Tommy Lee Jones, and George Clooney to comedic icons such as Robin Williams and Nick Offerman. The video was created with open-source software known as DeepFaceLab, which uses machine learning to replace someone's face with another's. Sham00k spent more than 250 hours on the project and fed the software over 1,200 hours of video and 300,000 images of the 20 celebrities.

Actor Jim Meskimen partnered with deepfake artist Sham00k to make his celebrity impressions a little more realistic. Meskimen and Sham00k shared the results in a YouTube video, and honestly, they're pretty remarkable. While Meskimen did the voices, deepfake software applied the facial features of 20 celebrities, including George Clooney, Nicholas Cage, Colin Firth, Robert De Niro, Nick Offerman, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Robin Williams and George W. Bush. The video speaks to Meskimen's talent as an impressionist but also to the capability of deepfake software. It proves how well the tech is able to blur the line between what's real and what isn't.