A deepfake is synthetic media that convincingly depicts people saying or doing things they did not, created with generative models.
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Deepfake
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A deepfake is synthetic media that convincingly depicts people saying or doing things they did not, created with generative models.
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AI-made video or audio that looks or sounds real but is fabricated.
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