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In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines

The ease of AI-assisted face-swapping apps lets users apply the technology to an eerie new trend: pasting the faces of celebrities onto actors in pornographic videos. And the law can't keep up.
The advancement of AI-assisted face-swapping apps lets users apply the technology to an eerie new trend: pasting the faces of celebrities into pornographic videos.

Most people familiar with "face-swapping" know it as an innocuous social media feature. An algorithm captures a person's face and pastes it onto someone else's. The result is rarely seamless and often funny.

But as it grows more sophisticated, that technology has taken a sinister turn: It's now become easier

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