From Make Me Smart with Kai & Molly, Marketplace
By Kai Ryssdal
It can make for some neat video party tricks … deepfakes that swap someone’s face for another or put characters in scenarios way out of context...
To teach us more about how deepfakes work and how they could be weaponized, we turned to Hany Farid. He’s a professor at Berkeley’s School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences.