Deepfakes: Lighthearted Joke or Life-Threatening Hoax?

Deepfakes are a relatively new biproduct of technology and is essentially copy & pasting a face onto a pre-existing picture or video and watching as AI seamlessly blends the two images/ videos together giving the impression to the viewer that the person in the picture or video is whoever you want it to be. An attentive read of Jaya Harrar’s article published April 1St 2021 “Should You Believe What Your Own Two Eyes Are Seeing? The Malicious Intent of Deepfakes” Taught me that deepfakes used to be taken lightly as it was easy to tell when the face was pasted on but as technology advances, so…