Alec Baldwin Donald Trump deepfake sparks disinformation fears
A deepfake spoof of Donald Trump by Saturday Night Live host Alec Baldwin sparked a debate about the implications and ethics of deepfake technology. The video used a clip from the October 1, 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live during which Baldwin skewered Trump's performance in the first general presidential debate, and overlaid Trump's face on that of Alec Baldwin. Alec Baldwin impersonated Trump many times during the 2016 US presidential election for Saturday Night Live , something the notoriously thin-skinned businessman and politician appeared to find distinctly unamusing. The deepfake sparked discussions about the implications of deepfake technology in political discourse and raised concerns about misinformation and the potential for deepfakes to mislead audiences. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Operator: derpfakes Developer: Country: USA Sector: Politics Purpose: Satirise/parody Technology: Deepfake - video; Machine learning Issue: Ethics/values ; Mis/disinformation
- Date it happened
- 2018-02-01
- Organisation involved
- derpfakes
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