deepfake

American  

[deep-feyk] / ˈdipˌfeɪk /

Or deep fake

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.

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Etymology

Origin of deepfake

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

Example Sentences

“There’s normal people, all over the world, who are finding themselves with deepfakes. I don’t want to see that happen.”

From Salon

"Iranian state media's repeated use of deepfakes suggests that this is a feature of their war reporting rather than a bug."

From BBC

The warning, from Prof Martin Innes of Cardiff University, comes as the Electoral Commission is developing software to spot and combat deepfakes ahead of the Welsh and Scottish parliaments' elections in May.

From BBC

It was a deepfake video of him, made using artificial intelligence.

From BBC

It will become even harder to spot what is real and what is, in AI terms, deepfake.

From BBC