In 2019, media artists created a convincing video showing President Nixon giving a speech that was conceived but never actually recorded. The video, entitled “In Event of Moon Disaster”, features an alternate version of reality in which the famous 1969 Moon landing was unsuccessful. Created using a branch of artificial intelligence, deepfakes, it’s a truly believable video – which in itself is the most sinister part of this evolving technology.
Deepfakes – a portmanteau of ‘deep learning’ and ‘fake’ – are images, speeches or videos that have been artificially generated, based on events that never occurred, or people that don’t exist. The speech from Nixon used deep learning to perfectly replicate his voice, and even the movement of his lips as he speaks. These types of videos are also far from time consuming to produce, they can be generated in minutes – if not seconds – with open-source technology accessible to anyone who uses the internet.
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