One deepfake convincingly transposes Heath Ledger’s The Joker into the actor’s role in A Knight’s Tale. While it is still fairly easy to discern a deepfake from genuine footage, foolproof fabrications appear to be disconcertingly close. In May 2018, a Flemish socialist party called sp.a posted a deepfake video to its Twitter and Facebook pages showing Trump appearing to taunt Belgium for remaining in the Paris climate agreement. Eileen Donahoe, the director of the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI) and an adjunct professor at Stanford University, has been studying the deepfake threat to democracy for the past year. So far, the TCEI has not seen evidence that the Russians have tried to deploy deepfakes in a political context.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2019 07:18 UTC