Ever wonder why most security experts always say it's not everything you see on the internet that is real. The answer is not far fetch, with todays' technology almost everything is plausible given that you use the right resource(tools) or let's say you know what you're doing.
In this piece, I introduce you to the 21st century answer to photo-shopping the DEEPFAKE. If you have seen an event and you suspect it to be fake based on some evidential fact, then I would say you'd seen a deepfake.
The deepfake as the name implies is a form of AI that uses deep learning to fake events and make them look real. This is not a new concept as photo editing and video editing have been around for decades now, but deepfakes came into being in 2017 when a reddit user with the username deepfakes made deepfakes of some celebrity in po*rn act, this was done by swapping those celebrities faces unto bodies of actress in pornographic videos.
That's not all to it, the deepfake can be in form of pictures, voice clones, videos, profiles on professional website like LinkedIn and Twitter.
The essence of the DEEPFAKE technology is to create convincing events that looks real but in reality they are entirely fictitious.
So be careful in believing every content you see on the internet, because some of them might just be deepfakes that are meant to misguided the public.
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