deepfake

See also: Deepfake

English

Etymology

Blend of deep learning +‎ fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdipˌfeɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdiːpfeɪk/

Noun

deepfake (plural deepfakes)

1. (technology, neologism) A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.

   Did you see that leaked sex tape with the actress? It turned out to be a deepfake, but it looked so realistic!

   • 2017 December 17, u/randint2220, “Is this all even legal?”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/deepfakes, archived from the original on 2023-01-13:

     The thing is that normal people might try to use to harass other people, specially women, but I don't think this technology will be so advanced that you won't be able to recognize it's a fake video, so the majority of people who try to say a deep fake is real will be looked as an idiot, a pervert and probably reported.

   • 2018 January 1, u/viperex, “Wall”, in Reddit‎^[6], r/gifs, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:

     These deepfakes went in a completely unexpected direction

   • 2018 January 8, u/deepfakeapp, “FakeApp: A Desktop Tool for Creating Deepfakes”, in Reddit‎^[7], archived from the original on 2018-01-25:

     I've completed a desktop app /w GUI to create deepfakes. Here is a what it looks like. For anyone unfamiliar with this subreddit, deepfakes are neural network-generated faceswap videos created with a machine learning algorithm designed by /u/deepfakes.

   • 2019, Richard Joseph Behun, Eric Owens, Youth and Internet Pornography: The impact and influence on adolescent development, Routledge, →ISBN:

     For example, images of the actress Scarlett Johansson have been used to create a number of deepfake pornographic videos, one of which had been viewed over 1.5 million times on a popular SEIM site by the end of 2018 (Harwell, 2018).

   • 2020 January 7, David McCabe, Davey Alba, “Facebook Says It Will Ban ‘Deepfakes’”, in New York Times‎^[8]:

     By banning deepfakes before the technology becomes widespread, Facebook is trying to calm lawmakers, academics and political campaigns who remain frustrated by how the company handles political posts and videos about politics and politicians.

Derived terms

• deepfaker
• deepfakery

 

Translations

photograph or video created using artificial intelligence

• Afrikaans: diep vervalsing
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 深偽／深伪 (shēnwéi)

• Dutch: deepfake (nl) m
• Finnish: syväväärennös
• French: hypertrucage (fr) m
• German: Deepfake (de) m or n
• Spanish: ultrafalso m

Verb

deepfake (third-person singular simple present deepfakes, present participle deepfaking, simple past and past participle deepfaked)

1. (transitive) To create or turn into a deepfake; to impersonate someone with a deepfake.
   • 2021, Michael Grothaus, Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes, Hachette, →ISBN, page unknown:

     He deepfaked himself, no one suffered demonstrable harm from it and he admitted it when confronted.

   • 2022 September 2, Kyle Wiggers, Amanda Silberling, “AI is getting better at generating porn”, in TechCrunch‎^[9]:

     Currently, few laws around the world pertain to deepfaked porn.

Further reading

• Deepfake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “deepfake, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “deepfake”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English deepfake.

Noun

deepfake m (invariable)

1. (neologism, technology) deepfake