{"id":31805,"date":"2021-03-09T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31805"},"modified":"2021-03-09T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T18:37:04","slug":"the-state-of-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/09\/the-state-of-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/3\/5\/22314980\/tom-cruise-deepfake-tiktok-videos-ai-impersonator-chris-ume-miles-fisher\">James Vincent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/3\/5\/22314980\/tom-cruise-deepfake-tiktok-videos-ai-impersonator-chris-ume-miles-fisher\">\n<p>When a series of spookily convincing Tom Cruise deepfakes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22303756\/tiktok-tom-cruise-impersonator-deepfake\">went viral on TikTok<\/a>, some suggested it was a chilling sign of things to come &mdash; harbinger of an era where AI will let anyone make fake videos of anyone else. The video&rsquo;s creator, though, Belgium VFX specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/vfxchrisume.com\/\">Chris Ume<\/a>, says this is far from the case. Speaking to <em>The Verge<\/em> about his viral clips, Ume stresses the amount of time and effort that went into making each deepfake, as well as the importance of working with a top-flight Tom Cruise impersonator, Miles Fisher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake\/\">How Much of the Internet Is Fake?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Vincent: When a series of spookily convincing Tom Cruise deepfakes went viral on TikTok, some suggested it was a chilling sign of things to come &mdash; harbinger of an era where AI will let anyone make fake videos of anyone else. The video&rsquo;s creator, though, Belgium VFX specialist Chris Ume, says this is far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-09T18:37:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"2d417126-5e54-4757-981f-0742b91ff64f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-09T18:37:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALUFxJl5UR1eYHwdCuR_2Tw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,619,1904],"class_list":["post-31805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-graphics","tag-tiktok"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31806,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31805\/revisions\/31806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}