Deep faking and getting real

Deep fakes have got the world creeped out. Photo manipulation techniques joined with AI are enabling people to create very convincing, very fake images and videos. The authenticity of audio is also up for grabs, and in fact in this paper, “Text Based Editing on Talking Head Videos,” researchers demonstrate a technique for editing a speaker in a video by editing the transcript, eliminating the need for editors to have access to the original speaker. That work was done by Adobe Research, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Stanford University, and Princeton University. The writers highlight the dangers of what is clearly