Deepfakes

Of course, this whole book has been about the past and present of deepfakes, so it makes sense to circle back to their future at the end. There is a lot we can learn about the future of deepfakes from the other AI mentioned in this chapter. This is because, sneakily, all the parts of this chapter have been building up to this section. Deepfakes are, after all, an image generation AI that works on domain-specific images with a shared embedding.

Every area that we’ve explored in this chapter can be used to improve deepfakes, so let’s approach them one at a time.

Sound generation

This one is quite simple and obvious. The next step after swapping a face would be to swap the voice too. If we could get a solid voice swap, then deepfakes would be taken to a whole new capability. Making music or other effects could also be useful if you were making a movie without any other people helping, but their utility would be otherwise limited (in deepfakes, other industries...