Review on Deep Fake: A looming Technological Threat

摘要

The misuse of technologies increases with the increase in technology development. Due to the recent progress that has met the face of social media, tools for editing videos and audios, and Generative Adversarial Networks, manipulated videos has been going around on social media networks and the like, in a rapid manner. Most of these intentionally manipulated videos, created for deliberate misinformation and the like have initiated blockbusting fiascos in communities around the whole world. In fact, there are cases where people body parts are switched from one person to another, using neural networks to form DeepFake videos, as it is called. Some of these editing tools are freely accessible, and that is a threat, a technical one! To deal with this, it is required to develop a platform where such DeepFake contents can be automatically filtered.