It's the Word of the Day podcast for July 6th.

Today's word is deepfake, spelled as one word, D-E-E-E-P-F-A-K-E.

Deepfake is a noun. It refers to an image or recording that has been convincingly altered and

manipulated to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that was not actually done or said.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the Hollywood reporter. Overall, the deep fakes are

impressive, if not maybe a tad uncanny, showing a near-perfect replica of how Jagger, Keith Richards,

and Ronnie Wood looked in the late 70s. The old maxim, things aren't always what they seem,

seems more true than ever in the age of deepfakes.

A deep fake is an image or a video or audio recording that has been edited using an algorithm to replace the person in the original with someone else, typically a public figure, in a way that makes it look authentic.

The fake in deep fake is transparent.

Deep fakes are not real.

The deep is less self-explanatory.

This half of the term is specifically influenced by deep learning, that is, machine learning using artificial neural networks with multiple layers of

algorithms. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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