If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then a video’s worth a thousand pictures. For as long as videos have existed, we’ve trusted them as a reliable form of evidence. Nothing is as impactful as seeing something happen on video (e.g. the Kennedy assassination) or seeing someone say something on video, especially if it’s recorded in an inconspicuous manner (e.g. Mitt Romney’s damning “47 percent†video). However, that foundation of trust is slowly fading as a new generation of AI-doctored videos finds their way into the mainstream. Famously known as “deepfakes,†the synthetic videos are created using an application called FakeApp,…
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