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DeepFake

The mobile camera applications for our phones and computers have become increasingly advanced. We can edit our photos and videos in less than one minute and get millions of views on the World Wide Web. One of the manipulations we can do to our recorded videos is called DeepFake. So, what is it? 
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Well, DeepFake can be designated as applying Deep Learning techniques to the video to mix two or more videos. Why use it? With DeepFake we can put a person telling something that she or he never told to anyone in is life. No, it is not a polygraph to say the truth. We simply record a video having some speech. Then, using DeepFake we "mix" our face with one from another person, and the final spectator will see the person you chose telling our speech. Imagine recording a video talking about how good you are in Artificial Intelligence and using a celebrity face to say it. In this link, you can see a youtube video showing some examples of DeepFaking.
DeepFake techniques started to be applied by even the industry in the last three to four years. The first projects were very bad and we could easily spot which video is fake or not. However, with the technological improvements in the area, today we have some cases where it is almost impossible to a non-trained person to identify the fake video. What about in the next years? Who will be able to know if the video is fake or not? Indeed, this is the biggest point of my post. AI is amazing, we can do unimaginable things with it, but we all know that if someone uses something to the good, there is also someone else using it with bad purposes. Imagine all the news on tv, where they could be changed by someone hacking the tv show system, saying persuasive statements for all people, being all of them a lie. Who will be a trustable source? We, people, must know if some information is reliable or not, otherwise, our judgement is completely misguiding.

We need to find ways to verify the video's integrity and reliability. Maybe we will need some AI algorithms to find fake videos. However, if an AI algorithm can spot a fake video, let's call it the anti-DeepFakeAI, the DeepFake video creators can use the same algorithm  (anti-DeepFakeAI) to create a fake video that is not identified by the anti-DeepFakeAI. 
Thus, brace yourself for the next year. The use of data has a mass influence in the world and we will fight many people trying to manipulate it. Imagine all elections in the world, where the electoral campaigns could be all based on DeepFake videos to invite people to not vote in the other competitors. I hope this scenario never happens.

Please tell me, what do you think about DeepFake?
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