What are deepfakes and are they dangerous? | Start Here

Deepfake videos are becoming more common. These AI-generated fake videos are getting easier to create and more realistic. So what are deepfakes? How are they made? And should they worry us? #AJStartHere explains with Sandra Gathmann and the help of a special guest...
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[@excelsior31107]

This robust technology is a great way for destroying people’s reputations.

[@amerlad]

among other things, such as fabricating evidence, disapproving evidence and so much more extremely dangerous uses. you dont like a new government policy? oh look! we have a video of you having intercourse.

[@RiversBliss]

It's not new.

[@dansierrasam79]

@@amerlad Well said! Not only government policy but particularly disagreements pertaining to matters of religion and race. Or if people want to discredit you in some way to suit their agenda. It's very easy. Still, people who are close to you usually know you better and which is why these deepfake videos fail to reflect reality over time.

[@aminbinsalim1995]

/s

[@aminbinsalim1995]

@@amerlad :(

[@fahdjamy]

Appreciate the fact that "Sandra looks and sounds better than J-Lo"

[@danielwilson9342]

Unimportant and unnecessary take

[@SubliminalMessagesTV]

Ayyyyeeee

[@SubliminalMessagesTV]

@@danielwilson9342 u right but shut up

[@klarag7059]

Totally agree.

[@klarag7059]

@jaep struiksma not from my perspective. The presenter looks more beautiful as she looks more natural than the overly made up “fictitious”image of beauty. The reporter is more real and relatable because of her more natural look.

[@salmanramzan2032]

Welcome to the Age of Deceptions.

[@samdacosta4676]

I read that first as DECEPTICONS

[@rogeramezquita5685]

Facts

[@filhanislamictv8712]

@@samdacosta4676 You need to unload movies from your mind.

[@samdacosta4676]

@@filhanislamictv8712 ha ....ikr

[@furrycheetah]

@@filhanislamictv8712 it is related

[@xja85mac]

Wonder why she put her earrings off? It turns out that earrings or eyeglasses make it harder for the algorithm to isolate your face.

[@hoboryan3455]

LMAO! the beginning actually had me, I was like "WTF" And then I remembered what the topic was xD

[@TheSenzerx]

Same here 🤪

[@amenjamal8454]

@@TheSenzerx i thought it was youtube add of some beauty product of jennifer lopez

[@TheSenzerx]

@@amenjamal8454 lol

[@frfarahrahman]

Same... 😂😂😂

[@florence8532]

Informative, yet chilling enough to make people think twice before posting pictures of themselves.

[@PainfulGrowth]

celebs are gonna be in danger lol, so easy to make a scandall

[@Scarshadow666]

@@PainfulGrowth Considering how often a lot of people put images of themselves online (or, even if they don't, there's lots of people that will intentionally look for pictures of them to display online), I don't think it's just celebrities that are going to be in danger... 0_0

[@Scarshadow666]

Considering how well social media like TikTok, KZbin, and Instagram take off due to people posting images of themselves, I doubt it'll hinder people unless they educate themselves of the dangers of deep-fakes. 0_0

[@itistrueitisafact5432]

Technology has advantages and disadvantages and this is one of them. May Allah save us from all evil people amen.

[@y.r5155]

Amin. But deep fake can be recognized there are apps people use that verify if the video was created

[@KatariaGujjar]

@@y.r5155 So what, are you gonna scan and check every video for possible deep fake?

[@y.r5155]

@@KatariaGujjar no I'm talking about like a celebrity or government officials or someone known. I'm a software engineer I know how to create it and how to know it's a deep fake.

[@KatariaGujjar]

@@y.r5155 Celebrities and officials make thousands of videos daily. Who is going to check every single clip?

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@KatariaGujjar ARe You A Jew or Zoroastrian

[@sindhujasai1345]

Before anything horrible happens, I hope a global policy is created to protect those who were used for deep fake stuff. Which could involve cyber police maybe. Edit: Honestly it's already seeming to get out of hand but the sooner the better.

[@KatyYoder-cq1kc]

Too late, it has and is

[@tauriqabdullah6130]

I thought the J Lo intro was an ad.

[@MuhammadShahAlamSaqibi]

That was the best session according to me, post pandemic. Especially that face changing Sandra.

[@rajinrashid2455]

this series is actually pretty good

[@ousman997]

this lady is amazing, your scripts are just on spot.

[@zx7siovia213]

Fun fact, Sandra looks better than Jlo 😂

[@blaze4158]

So what? JLO can sing, dance, act, choreograph, and she's got a better body. A woman's physical appearance shouldn't matter that much to you or anyone else. Stop comparing us like objects. It creates a competitive sense between females and we should no longer allow males to do this to us.

[@loveshell007]

Not a fact, just an opinion

[@blaze4158]

@@loveshell007 Who is your comment directed to? You should know enough to be specific about whom you are addressing.

[@Mazzie2022]

I actually don’t think she looked like Jennifer Lopez. In fact when I watched it at first the sound was muted and I just thought she had the same name as Jennifer Lopez but I will agree this is very dangerous and quite sick actually.

[@andikoazri]

She only did it for an examples...There's someone out there can make DeepFake looking 100% like the real celebrities!

[@nusaibahibraheem8183]

They probably did it very quickly just as an example

[@andikoazri]

@@nusaibahibraheem8183 Exactly...

[@sultanrayder]

Sandra! Thank you so much 🧡

[@cinto1394]

Wow thanks for raising concerns!

[@mahmudulhaidersiyam3186]

Starting was just🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gokulpayyanur1839]

When also look into the fact that we have a small camera to record things, the world is getting creeper by the minute

[@EmpressTouch]

Yes. And this video only highlights visuals. Sound and acoustics are developing very fast too.

[@rimshakhan9751]

The intro really got me! 😂

[@dorcasnjeri2858]

It's very dangerous because it's destroying people's reputations dignity , career's, creating depression

[@shabeebkaringappara2917]

The starting.... Nailed it 🤣

[@badripaudel77]

It's people's moral characters. There are people always to misuse something 🙄

[@saajidalikhan]

I was trying to find the skip ad button in the beginning, thinking it was an omaze ad or something

[@haideralisuterwala9403]

Great informative vedio, thanks. Keep going.

[@izzatfauzimustafa6535]

Marvel is creating deepfakes of Tom Hiddleston using Loki.

[@MuhammadAbdullah-dy5dn]

That is really interesting to know. Technology has changed everything. I hope law will be made on it to spot the culprits behind it.

[@nickdupreez1843]

Thank you! This is a very good overview on deep fake technology, the only of the thing you didn't mention was the fact that realistic deep fakes are trained on huge data sets of images (10,000's+) like the Tom Cruise deep fakes, where they have hours of footage with a huge range of facial expression and you need to map the face onto someone with a similar facial structure to achieve realistic results.

[@BA-mf4gi]

With so many activities being online now, school, work, etc. it's not so hard to get hours of footage of anyone. And that's minus all the content people put up of themselves on their social media accounts.

[@DarkPesco]

@@BA-mf4gi I agree. The commenter seemed to be trying to make it seem like it's not that big of a threat to anyone other than celebrities with grand amounts of footage, while ignoring the fact that modern phones and social media have driven large segments of the population to create a comparable amount of footage of themselves and post it all online. The commenter doesn't use personal social media like FB? Doesn't have friends on SM so he doesn't know?

[@NINJANOOB777]

yo her last part words about rocks sounded like the hood i love it lol

[@thisismyloooveeeyy8014]

All we need is knowledge, and to stay informed of what technology can do.

[@paklah245]

Fitnah coming soon

[@hareemshk9904]

Dajjal coming soon

[@baekhyunsbambi6978]

It's already here...we have to be more careful.

[@filhanislamictv8712]

too late it is coming soon ..

[@leylayetmez]

Allah is coming

[@jumambugah3946]

He's here

[@wonderfacts7782]

You are rocking Sandra ❤️

[@slipknotj2581]

The only video of Al Jazeera I’ve respected

[@ishaqueahmed6362]

Thanks a lot for informative videos and please upload your video on time.

[@jamdindali]

pro-deepfakes and deepfakes apologist are a problem. mark my words

[@Head_of_the_Table2.0]

Al Jazeera is definitely a great example of it

[@webdecodedwithfahad4414]

Genius editing 👌

[@sunny-pe6yt]

Very informative videos, good work 👍

[@azzyfreeman]

The same algorithms used to detect deep fakes, can be used to train better deep fake networks

[@DarkPesco]

A sick cycle...

[@andym6603]

Too notch investigative journalism

[@01arthi]

The last bit was a killer 😀

[@ikkmic451]

i love the show..... v informative

[@Salman-qd2wl]

Very informative video! Btw you look absolute sober and beautiful!

[@axethrowing1801]

Nothing good can come from this.

[@michelefortner1190]

Very interesting but terrifying at the same time I wouldn't want that to ever to happen to me or my friends and family this isn't good there will be so many problems with this

[@maverickbourne2.0rph.]

💯😩💯

[@moatazgamal34]

Let's just appreciate all the hard work done to make such a video, It seems simple because it took a lot of effort into it for sure

[@gandhi1945]

This tech will help protect the elites

[@davidalao5336]

Informative

[@mirygalas6508]

Education, education, education. People who can think critically and exercise a healthy level of skepticism are difficult to deceive. New technology, old solutions.

[@arvailankara]

Sandra has got extraordinary grace and gravitas

[@Recuper8]

The audio on this is brutal.

[@nawazsharif4634]

Sandra is my favorite journalist

[@mubashirali7829]

nice work

[@emadabuhagag222]

Thanks

[@Aslaan1]

Very hard to find fake ones so be vigilant & prudent.

[@juankitchen1008]

I subscribe your KZbin channel by watching this video. Very informative and timely!

[@user-mw9cl6pj3i]

Conductora ❤

[@birdsarecool6448]

This is extremely alarming.

[@VAUIENLET]

I suggest these things should be used for video game entertainment purpose and not for harm or conflict. And we can make deep fakes in such a way that they look real and even know that is deep fake.

[@SubliminalMessagesTV]

Yet the funny thing about this segment is that this information has been widely known for the last several years and has only improved and there's a slight possibility that It has been used with actual results in modern media settings

[@IbrahimAli-vv3df]

I was so annoyed that Sandra was substituted. Lol.

[@Kingofboys15]

Could you please do a episode of the current situation of Somalia!!!

[@LondonHijamaa]

What's happening in Somalia???

[@user-uc4iv3jx3v]

wow this show is awesome

[@ShahbazAli-ji3jq]

There is a woman in Canada who has KZbin channel her name is jasmine, she is doppelganger of Sandra. The name of the channel is jasmine and dawoud .

[@havetrustissue8975]

This is the technology that CIA uses, I guess.

[@SunnySJamil]

At 2:16, the genius of the software user trumps that of its developer.

[@Hypocrisy.Allergic]

facts

[@dumanimjo609]

Funny enough the only people I am afraid of regarding this technology is the government. Who knows what kind of devious plans they're going to be able to pull off because of this tech.

[@user-mu3iy8fq3d]

Engaging in open discussions about deepfakes is essential for raising awareness and building resilience. By fostering a culture of transparency and accountability, we can collectively navigate the challenges posed by deepfake technology, mitigating its negative impact on individuals and society.

[@shahidchoudhary9795]

Welcome 💝💖🌹💞

[@letarvisjohnson5337]

They are absolutely dangerous. Bcuz people always believe most of what they see.

[@CSSWITHRIDAEZAINAB]

Kindly make the video on Digital currency.

[@gcfoodandculture]

I've heard that now a days movie stars use them to save time..

[@gnomuka]

Lol last of my worries! Hahah

[@rogeramezquita5685]

That freak me out

[@ahiyanali7231]

At 4:14 that music made me think my stomach was rumbling

[@wh3resmycar]

Caleb Carr’s book Killing Time predicted this.

[@tjmarx]

lol @ "if it makes you feel a strong emotion, either really, really good or very mad take an extra second to check if it's real". Yeah, because people experiencing strong emotions are definitely using logic in that moment and will think to check frame by frame for artefacts and ghosting before they join a bandwagon. lol. The rule in the 90's was, don't believe anything you see on the internet you don't know what is and isn't fake. It continued to be the rule in the early 2000s too. Then suddenly somewhere around 2010 people lost their minds and forgot that the internet is full of misinformation and fakery. If we just went back to the original rule, deep fakes online wouldn't pose a problem to anyone. Hopefully deep fakes might also encourage people to care about their data, about who has their voice print and who has access to their photos. Maybe they'll think twice about using that Russian novelty face swap app, or letting a major company/the government just have their voice print for "security purposes".

[@fredkerfwappie8380]

Best comment yet.

[@kristakaufman3593]

Sowhat APPSdidyou use?

[@istriver.]

They should have used this technology in MS Dhoni's Biopic

[@shriragreddy7193]

not going to lie. She had me in the first half

[@LivesInReality]

*Very*

[@BillyHau]

I want to say... there is a reason why the DeepFaceLab don't keep updating the image every second, that slow down the training process!

[@Counselor23_Nov]

Hahaha... I was amazed and dejected that the host got changed.

[@fivetimesyo]

Sandra looks good and she knows it

[@dezzelmoney]

Wtf I triped out when she said I'm Jennifer Lopez 😆 she is a pretty reporter though...

[@halalpolice7544]

Audubillah at first I was confused 🤷‍♀️😂

[@lancesay]

pretty interesting and they should redo enter the dragon, bruce lee movie.

[@Farah_Gojali07]

I literally believed she is Jennifer Lopez!!

[@CAMIDRCS]

Few days!?

[@knowledgeispowerchannel7734]

Matthew 24: Many will come in my name and deceive many - sounds like deepfake

[@VicpaCS2]

Check out this thing bro, Antichrist or as we call him Dajjal in Islam, is known for being the liar and deceiver and Qur'an and Hadith is saying that in the times when he will come, people will not be able to recognise truth from false and vice versa... Looks like world is getting ready for his comming...

[@yoeymeme]

the first one is obv not real like the field of view in the face is completely different

[@hermie0600]

The only good application i can see for deepfaking is replacing a stunt double's face with the actor/actress in movies and tv shows instead of like doing all sorts of scand and rigging for that scan or hiding the stunt double's face

[@tzogreekwarrior6]

Soooo any good free apps for deepfaking? For educational purposes of course :)

[@osiasnocum7239]

Yes, very dangerous stuff..!!

[@stephencorsaro954]

JL..Palo Mayombe. FV magic.

[@MagicMattHawkins]

What if we found a way to like “watermark” a video 💦 the future will eventually depend upon markings to prove ❤legitimacy❤of media

[@habbyhouse]

Nicolas cage as Louis lane is the best.

[@emotionalimpact4323]

Not for now but in 10 years when people will know to perfect it and the ai will get smarter then it will be a big threat

[@mattangelodolorzo8761]

New Good, New Evil.

[@danny-li6io]

I’m just curious why the stupid name deep fake stuck? Counter facing was the better descriptive.

[@digitalsuperman]

lol at their graphics genius.