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″Hi, TikTok fans. Would you like to play golf with me?”
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise released a video of playing golf on a sunny day on TikTok. The number of views of this video surpassed 8 million times in TikTok alone. However, the main character in this video is not Tom Cruise. It was a fake created by deepfake synthesis.
Deep Fake technology that synthesizes faces or specific parts using deep learning, a field of artificial intelligence (AI), is becoming more sophisticated day by day. Both video and audio can be made to resemble the real thing. The Tom Cruise deepfake video is similar enough to be mistaken for the actual Tom Cruise voice if not carefully listened to.
A Twitter user (@laurenmwhite) recently introduced this video and said, ″Deepfakes are taking over TikTok. “Even if all officials do not create content on TikTok, they must have a public account to distinguish it from a fake account.” This is because there is a lot of potential for abuse as it is not easy to distinguish between a real account and a fake deepfake account.
In another TikTok video, Tom Cruise, made with deepfakes, performs coin tricks and says, “All this is real.” TikTok users who saw this were astonished, saying, “It has become a world where you can not believe what you see.
Deep fakes are getting scary good and taking over TikTok. Every public figure should just be on there with a verified account-even if they don’t want to make content-to make it easier to identify their fakes. Here’s Tom Cruise: pic.twitter.com/xoSJt1bvVR
— Lauren white (@laurenmwhite) February 25, 2021
See this video of Tom Cruise?
Well, it’s not Tom Cruise.
It’s AI generated synthetic media that portrays Tom Cruise onto a TikTok user using Deepfakes.
Seeing is no longer believing. pic.twitter.com/CRix0hD9OH
— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) February 25, 2021
In Korea, there are growing concerns about the abuse of deepfake technology. In particular, SBS’I Want to Know’, which aired last week, used deepfake technology, not mosaic, to protect the identity of victims in the process of tracking deepfake-related crimes. It was so natural that many viewers would not be aware of it.
If the SiO was also found out that in recent years China’s Internet broadcaster, one off the popular singer IU resemblance was utilizing deep fake fake technology. According to’Deep Trace’, a deep fake detection technology company, 25% of the videos posted on the deep fake website target K-pop singers.
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