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This is today explained, I'm Sean Ramos from.

There's this crazy thing happening online right now that could make you question whether

what you're hearing, whether what you're seeing is real. It could affect who you trust,

it could affect elections, but right now it's mostly affecting porn. It kind of goes

back to this long standing rule of the internet. If it exists, there's porn of it. Now we know

that even if it doesn't exist, there's porn of it. This is Asia Romano. I am an internet

culture reporter for Vox. Asia's been writing about algorithms lately. The ability to build your

own predictive algorithm has been there for years. Predictive algorithms take some stuff and

with that stuff, they can imagine totally new stuff. Recently, people have been using these

predictive algorithms to make fake videos of real people. It's basically learning what

your face looks like and then predicting what your face would look like mapped onto another

image that is doing something else. Like if I were to show the computer the neural network

enough photos of your face, it would learn what you look like based on all of the photos

that I give it and then predict what your face would look like doing something else that

I feed it. So if I give it a video of, I don't know, someone chopping wood, it would

then be able to say this is what he would look like chopping wood. Does that make sense?

No, because why would anyone want to watch a fake video of a podcast host chopping wood?

But because there are a lot of perviedudes on the internet, take one guess what they've

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