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[+] out. getty The hottest buzzword or catchphrase right now seems to be “cheap fakes”. In today’s column, I’ll explain what cheap fakes are, including how they contrast to deepfakes, and share with you some of the ways that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are aiming to help deal with the rapidly expanding scourge of cheap fakes.
For my prior coverage on generative AI and the emergence of deepfakes, see the link here and the link here , just to name a few. Let’s jump right into the matter at hand. Clarifying What Cheap Fakes Are Versus Deepfakes The notion of deepfakes is pretty much widely known, while the nature of cheap fakes seems to be a lot less familiar to most people.
I’ll start by explaining deepfakes and then launch into the cheap fakes realm. A deepfake consists of using AI to devise a fake video or the like (e.g.
, fake picture, fake audio, fake text). I’m sure you’ve seen a deepfake before. A celebrity or a politician might be portrayed via AI to be saying something they didn’t actually say or might be moving around or dancing in a manner that they didn’t actually do.
Deepfakes are routinely posted on social media and covered in mainstream news. In a sense, it is almost ho-hum to deride the rise of deepfakes, simply because the roar of concern and outrage about them has been f.
