LISTEN: What are ‘deepfakes,’ and what is Brooklyn doing to fight them?
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This type of manipulation, known as “deepfakes,” is one of the newest ways people are spreading misinformation today. Creators alter videos by swapping out faces and/or changing voices, sometimes creating entirely new messages.
Deepfakes take one person’s face and represent the facial expressions of that person, while generating the face of a different person with exactly the same facial expression, according to Professor Siwei Lyu of the University of Albany, who has worked in media forensics for more than 20 years.