deepfake

Or deep fake

[deep-feyk]

noun

1. a fake, digitally manipulated video or audio file produced by using deep learning, an advanced type of machine learning, and typically featuring a person’s likeness and voice in a situation that did not actually occur.

   Pornographic deepfakes have caused real harm to women whose faces have been superimposed over those of porn actresses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deepfake¹

First recorded in 2015–20; deep (learning) ( def. ) + fake ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

My colleagues recently created deepfakes of several Wall Street Journal staffers’ voices, including my own, and it was hard to tell the human voices from the clones.

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CMG Worldwide, which represents the estates of deceased celebrities, struck a partnership with deepfake detection company Loti AI to protect CMG’s rosters of actors and estates from unauthorized digital use.

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Generative AI now enables anyone to flood the internet with convincing fake news, deepfakes of politicians, and propaganda at scale.

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A Tory MP says he has reported a deepfake video depicting him announcing he had joined Reform UK to the police.

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She said the ability to create deepfakes of deceased historical figures did not just speak to a "lack of respect" towards them, but also posed further dangers for people's understanding of real and fake content.

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