Video fake actor Tom Cruise with high definition, lifelike voice and gesture appeared on TikTok surprised many people.
Account TikTok named Deeptomcruise recently posted three video content is a man with a face like a Hollywood actor Tom Cruise are made many different actions. The most noticeable video is the actor guiding to play golf and his podcast introduction.
Video quickly received nearly 8 million views after just five days of posting, with more than 822,000 "heart drop", more than 23,000 comments and nearly 35,000 shares. However, this is a fake video, made using deepfake technology.
"From the face to the voice and gestures of the man in the video are very similar to Tom Cruise, I have no doubt there is a fake here. I thought that Tom Cruise filmed the video himself and posted it on TikTok," one comment account. "If I don't read the comments and re-read the account name, I probably don't know this is a fake video. One of the most real fake Tom Cruise videos I've ever seen," a TikTok account said.
Some users feel confused about the "surreal" of the video. "This kind of deepfake content is worryingly authentic. How the hell can we trust what we see on TV," wrote a TikTok account. "I feel lucky because this video is just funny and harmless. But I worry if it is used for bad purposes," commented another account.
Deepfake is a combination of "deep learning" and "fake" - technology emerging from 2018. In terms of how it works, deepfake uses AI to scan videos and portraits of a person, then merge them with separate videos and replace facial details such as eyes, mouth, nose with lifelike facial movements, voices.
In the past, deepfake videos were often created mostly related to pornography and often had low resolution. However, the fact that they have improved over time in both picture quality, sound and realism has caused many people to worry.
Recently, Microsoft has released a deepfake video detection tool called Video Authenticator. It will be deployed first as an extension for browsers, but it is unclear when it will become popular for end users.
According to a survey by Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University (NTU), many people are easily persuaded by fake content with deepfake, including those who claim to have deep knowledge of the field. According to Sensity, a research firm specializing in deepfake research, as many as 49,081 deepfake content was discovered on the Internet in the first six months of 2020, twice as many as last year. Many of them impersonate celebrities like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire Bill Gates, Elon Musk ... and transmit false information.
Nina Schick, an expert on deepfake, said that if not used for the right purpose, this technology will be very worrying. "Deepfake is offering enormous commercial and creative opportunities, but also a weaponized technology in the future," Schick predicts.
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