Etymology Blend of deep learning + fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.
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A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.
Did you see that leaked sex tape with the actress? It turned out to be a deepfake, but it looked so realistic!
The thing is that normal people might try to use to harass other people, specially women, but I don't think this technology will be so advanced that you won't be able to recognize it's a fake video, so the majority of people who try to say a deep fake is real will be looked as an idiot, a pervert and probably reported.2017 December 17, u/randint2220, “Is this all even legal?”, in Reddit, r/deepfakes, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2023:
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These deepfakes went in a completely unexpected direction2018 January 1, u/viperex, “Wall”, in Reddit, r/gifs, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2023:
I've completed a desktop app /w GUI to create deepfakes. Here is a what it looks like. For anyone unfamiliar with this subreddit, deepfakes are neural network-generated faceswap videos created with a machine learning algorithm designed by /u/deepfakes.2018 January 8, u/deepfakeapp, “FakeApp: A Desktop Tool for Creating Deepfakes”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2018:
For example, images of the actress Scarlett Johansson have been used to create a number of deepfake pornographic videos, one of which had been viewed over 1.5 million times on a popular SEIM site by the end of 2018 (Harwell, 2018).2019, Richard Joseph Behun, Eric Owens, Youth and Internet Pornography: The impact and influence on adolescent development, Routledge, →ISBN:
By banning deepfakes before the technology becomes widespread, Facebook is trying to calm lawmakers, academics and political campaigns who remain frustrated by how the company handles political posts and videos about politics and politicians.2020 January 7, David McCabe, Davey Alba, “Facebook Says It Will Ban ‘Deepfakes’”, in New York Times:
Etymology Blend of deep learning + fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.
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To create or turn into a deepfake; to impersonate someone with a deepfake.
He deepfaked himself, no one suffered demonstrable harm from it and he admitted it when confronted.2021, Michael Grothaus, Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes, Hachette, →ISBN, page unknown:
Currently, few laws around the world pertain to deepfaked porn.2022 September 2, Kyle Wiggers, Amanda Silberling, “AI is getting better at generating porn”, in TechCrunch: