Deepfakes are (one) click away
"I think we’ve entered a game over scenario for consensus reality"
Hi.
Back in March the guy who made the Tom Cruise deepfakes, Chris Ume, said the public doesn’t need to be worried about “one click deepfakes”:
“You can’t do it by just pressing a button,” says Ume. “That’s important, that’s a message I want to tell people.” Each clip took weeks of work, he says, using the open-source DeepFaceLab algorithm as well as esta…
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