The deepfake apocalypse never came. But cheapfakes are everywhere.

After the rampant spread of misinformation during the 2016 presidential election, experts warned about a new threat for 2020: deepfakes.

Fake news stories can easily be fact-checked. But deepfakes? Experts feared the technology could become so advanced it would be difficult to tell a real video from a fake one.

Maybe you've seen those deepfake celebrity videos on YouTube, like the clip below. The creator used AI to digital stitch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face onto comedian Bill Hader. That’s achieved through deep learning — training a computer with lots of data until it learns to make a piece of manipulated content look real. Read more...