Ultimate in fake news: BBC documentary used deep fakes to hide interviewees faces

Ultimate in fake news: BBC documentary used deep fakes to hide interviewees faces

Filmmakers used an AI to swap the faces of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong for those of actors to protect the protestors’ identities while maintaining their facial movements and emotional expressions

Source: BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters’ identities | New Scientist

Once you start this process – the video equivalent of National Geographic re-arranging the Great Pyramids for a cover shot – confidence in your reporting goes to zero. It becomes impossible to know what is true, sort of true, or just a fiction.

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