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WILL DEEPFAKES DESTABILIZE DEMOCRACY?
BY MEG MCGINTY
For the last couple years, I have periodically heard the term “deepfake videosâ€, but prior to completing the research for this post, I didn’t know much about them. In fact, my knowledge of deepfake videos was limited to a few key facts that I’d heard repeated on the news and the internet: the average person can’t tell the difference between a real video and a deepfake video, anyone with a computer can make one, they will soon be everywhere, and they will definitely destabilize democracy.
Some scary stuff – but what are deepfake videos and how are they made? And, more importantly, how concerned should we actually be? I decided to find out.
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