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59: The Science of Deepfakes

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🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Is truth dead in a world without video evidence? That’s just one of the questions we cover in this week’s episode on Deepfakes. This face swapping technology is still young, but it’s set to change the world...

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References and Further Reading 
  1. https://youtu.be/OCLaeBAkFAY
  2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/deepfake-slang-definition-examples
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/13/what-are-deepfakes-and-how-can-you-spot-them
  4. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kz4amx/fsgan-program-makes-it-even-easier-to-make-deepfakes
  5. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/fake-videos-deepfakes.html
  7. https://www.creativelive.com/blog/tbt-photo-manipulation-before-photoshop/
  8. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/science/it-may-look-authentic-heres-how-to-tell-it-isnt.html
  9. http://iisjoa.org/sites/default/files/iisjoa/2017/PDF/11.%20Jitendra%20Sharma%20&%20Rohita%20Sharma.pdf
  10. http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/national-geographic/
  11. https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/history.pdf
  12. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/calr107&div=51&id=&page=
  13. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08685
  14. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8683164
  15. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicephore-Niepce
  16. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83262/how-photo-retouching-worked-photoshop
  17. https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography
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Hi. This week we're talking about shallow morality and deep fakes.

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Shallow morality and deep fake.

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Interesting.

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