How to Use deepfake in a Sentence

deepfake

noun
  • Politics Voters are seeing more deepfakes — and worrying more about their influence.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a deepfake of the movie with my face instead of Jack Black’s.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Thanks to Elon Musk’s retweet, one of those deepfakes has been viewed more than 143 million times.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Show me coverage of deepfakes over the past three months.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Most are aimed at slices of AI, such as the use of deepfakes in elections or to make pornography.
    CBS News, 24 May 2024
  • As noted, deepfakes have become too good and too easy to make.
    Giacomo Miceli, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In the meantime, the rise of malicious deepfakes could cause more states to outlaw their use.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
  • The body in the deepfake doesn’t match Elordi, who has a distinctive birthmark on his chest.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 19 June 2024
  • Celebrities have warned followers not to be duped by the deepfakes.
    Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the beginning, the researchers trained their neural network to spot one kind of deepfake.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Sep. 2021
  • How much of a factor is this going to be, these deepfakes and misleading ads?
    CBS News, 28 May 2023
  • Kim and Andrew also talk about the White House's plan to tackle deepfakes and take a look back at the first kiss ever recorded.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The Trump and the DeSantis campaigns both used deepfakes to sully their rivals.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The rise of deepfakes, the persistence of doubt Doubt has been a political weapon since ancient times.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Researchers say the technology for real-time deepfakes has been around for the better part of a decade.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • This announcement is not the first time a tech company has shared plans to help spot real-time deepfakes.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Up to this point, much of the attention on AI and elections has focused on deepfakes, and not without reason.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • It can also be used to make fake images of real people, called deepfakes.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • That's the unsettling reality many face with the surge of deepfakes, and celebrities are the prime targets.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some states have banned deepfakes, but so far, there is no federal law that could push Google to be more proactive in delisting links.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 14 May 2024
  • There is time for enterprises to make plans on how to proceed to protect against deepfakes.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The potential of deepfakes as a kind of reckless pornographic weapon is already in full swing.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • This week also saw what may be the first use of a deepfake to spread misinformation during wartime.
    Andrew Couts, Wired, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The side-by-side comparisons between the show and Shamook's deepfake in the video, which currently has more than 2.1 million views on YouTube, couldn't be ignored.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 July 2021
  • However, it was quickly revealed as an AI deepfake when users noticed the man had three arms.
    Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Could a last-minute deepfake deter a decisive few thousand voters in a swing state?
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • While there was no word from X on the development, the company addressed the deepfakes in a statement on Friday.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Election deepfakes and high-profile bankruptcies: Here’s what AI will bring in 2024.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The law, set to go into effect next year, also gives election officials and candidates the power to sue in response to misleading election deepfakes.
    Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 17 Nov. 2024
  • This content, known as deepfakes, can use false imagery and audio to spread misinformation and lead to false advertising.
    Nick Leighton, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024

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