59: The Science of Deepfakes

Is truth dead in a world without video evidence? That’s just one of the questions we cover in this week’s episode on Deepfakes. This face swapping technology is still young, but it’s set to change the world...

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References and Further Reading 

1. https://youtu.be/OCLaeBAkFAY
2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/deepfake-slang-definition-examples
3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/13/what-are-deepfakes-and-how-can-you-spot-them
4. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/kz4amx/fsgan-program-makes-it-even-easier-to-make-deepfakes
5. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth
6. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/fake-videos-deepfakes.html
7. https://www.creativelive.com/blog/tbt-photo-manipulation-before-photoshop/
8. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/science/it-may-look-authentic-heres-how-to-tell-it-isnt.html
9. http://iisjoa.org/sites/default/files/iisjoa/2017/PDF/11.%20Jitendra%20Sharma%20&%20Rohita%20Sharma.pdf
10. http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/national-geographic/
11. https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/history.pdf
12. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/calr107&div=51&id=&page=
13. https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08685
14. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8683164
15. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicephore-Niepce
16. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83262/how-photo-retouching-worked-photoshop
17. https://www.britannica.com/technology/photography

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