“Imagine this for a second: one man with total control of billions of people’s stolen data,” the image of Zuckerberg says. “We’ve used deepfake technology as way of narrative storytelling to engage audiences in some of the tensions that exist, like a cautionary tale of technology and democracy,” Posters said. To create the Zuckerberg “deepfake,” Ben-Ami said his company trained its AI algorithm on the original video of the Facebook chief and a video of the voice actor for 12 to 24 hours. “It just recreates the facial movements of Zuckerberg from the facial movements of the voice actor,” Ben-Ami said. Upon closer examination, it was revealed that the video had been subtly altered to make Acosta’s actions seem more exaggerated.

Source: National Post June 12, 2019 14:34 UTC