Experiments

Synthetic media technology currently enables these forms of manipulation: • Add and remove objects within a video more easily • Alter background conditions in a video. For example, changing the weather to make a video shot in summer appear as if it was shot in winter • Fake face or body movements: Simulate and control a realistic video representation of the lips, facial expressions or body movement of a specific individual (for example to make it appear they were drunk). • Fake lip-sync: Match an audio track to a realistic manipulation of someone’s lips to make it look like they said something they never did • Fake voice: Generate a realistic simulation of a specific person’s voice • Change a voice’s gender or make it sound like someone else: Modify an existing voice with a “voice skin” of a different gender, or of a specific person • Create a realistic but totally fake photo of a person who does not exist. The same technique can also be applied less problematically to create fake hamburgers, cats, etc. • Transfer a realistic face from one person to another, the most commonly known form of “deepfake”