John: deepfakes will soon catch up with reality (2019)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2019-02-05) · owner: John
In February 2019 John granted that deepfakes could still be spotted, but predicted they would not take long to catch up with reality, since 2019 deepfakes already looked better than 2007 YouTube video.
About: deepfake, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-05 | predicted | John grants that today's fakes can still be spotted, but says 2019 deepfakes look better than 2007 YouTube reality and it won't take them long to catch up. | Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-02-05 · Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images — John explains the opening is a deepfake by Ryan, a University of Washington professor, whose model maps the brothers' faces to put a mustache John once had on both of them. — 00:00:00
- 2019-02-05 · Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images — John says deepfake technology has been used to make Donald Trump, Barack Obama and many others say things they haven't actually said. — 00:00:29