.thereidout Blog: The fake Zelenskyy video was poorly made and easy to spot. But that won’t always be the case.
still reached a substantial audience. The Ukrainian TV network Ukraine 24 said hackers placed the video on its website and put Zelenskyy’s fake message in its scrolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen. The message was also spread across Russian-backed social media sites like VK, a site similar to Facebook predominantly used by Russian speakers.
Fortunately, the fake Zelenskyy video was poorly made and easy to spot. But that won’t always be the case. For years, security professionals around the world have warned about the nefarious use of deepfakes, machine-manipulated video and audio often used to deceive people into believing public figures have said or done things they actually haven’t.Unfortunately, deepfakes aren’t going away. In fact, the technologies used to create them are being refined and becoming more widely accessible, which has inevitably led to more widespread use.
For example, the very artificial intelligence technology that allowed someone to make the fake video of ZelenskyyAnd the same augmented reality technology — known as"AR" — used in some deepfakes to superimpose someone’s talking head on another person’s body has already become widely popular thanks to
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