Deep-fakes are a branch of synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks. Especially when it comes to television; whether it be shows, movies, or even commercials, we cannot trust that everything we are seeing is true. Deep-fakes are seen a lot in politics, as “fake news” seems to pop up every day about a presidential candidate or a person of power. The narrator says that we are in an era in which we must be skeptical as to what we are absorbing in the media, but laws on such things would be categorized as violating free speech.
Examples include Donald Trump as racist, parodies on Key and Peele about Barack Obama, people in ads who may not have the viewpoint, but go along with it due to compensation, among many others.
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