WHAT IS A DEEPFAKE?
A deepfake is something that uses an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to create content that looks or sounds realistic. So a video or even just audio.
The algorithms need very little training data and can create something that's quite convincing with a standard laptop that anyone could buy. Deepfakes made headlines and gained prominence, on the video side of things, by taking an actor's face and putting it on another person's body.
As with most evolutions in technology, this took a seedy route to begin with: actors' faces were put into porn. But sitting alongside that is this idea of an audio deepfake