Deepfakes just got real-time
When Berlin mayor Franziska Giffey took a call from Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, the pair discussed several issues, including the status of Ukrainian refugees in Germany. It was a normal conversation between politicians, given the circumstances. Except Klitschko wasn’t real.
Though the mayor could see the face of the former boxer turned politician and was talking to him in real-time, she was actually talking to an imposter. Deepfakes – technology that creates realistic renders of famous faces using AI – are now sophisticated enough
