Imagine you’re an inexperienced techie who wants to apply for a job at a company. Let’s say you have a roommate or a friend who already has a job and a much better grasp on the hellish concept of job interviews, which make you shudder when you think about them.
What if you could just slap your face on to his body and have him do the interview instead? As long as no one knew the real tone of your voice, you would be all set. Enter the magical — and often dark — world of deepfakes! A deepfake is a type of synthetic media in which a face of person in an existing image or a video is replaced with someone else’s likeness. The technology was developed in 1990s, but it became popular much later thanks to amateur online communities. Deepfakes can range from funny and quirky to sinister and dangerous videos depicting political statements that were never given or events that never took place. It gets worse — deepfakes have been used …