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If you’ve been following tech news in the past year, you’ve probably heard about deepfakes, the widely available, machine-learning-powered system for swapping faces and doctoring videos. Twitter and Facebook have unmasked tens of thousands of fake accounts from troll campaigns, but so far, those fake accounts haven’t produced a single deepfake video. (There’s also the serious policy problem of what to do when a video triggers the filter, since Facebook hasn’t been willing to impose a blanket ban.) But even with deepfake filters’ limitations, they could be enough to scare political trolls away from the tactic. Why take the risk?It’s also not clear how useful deepfakes are for this kind of troll campaign. Video doesn’t help with that; if anything, it hurts by grounding the conversation in disprovable facts.There’s still real damage being done by deepfake techniques, but it’s happening in pornography, not politics.
As said here by Russell Brandom