How artificial intelligence is being used to create ‘deepfakes’ online?

Artificial intelligence acts like a super-smart painter that can swap faces in photos and videos with amazing accuracy. This technology creates deepfakes, which are realistic digital copies of real people.

Imagine you have a box of LEGO bricks. You can build a house, then take it apart and build a car. AI works similarly, but with tiny pixels. It looks at thousands of pictures of a person to learn exactly what their face looks like. It learns the shape of their nose, the curve of their smile, and how their eyes move. Once the AI knows these details, it can paint that face onto another person’s body in a video. It is like putting a sticker of your face onto your best friend’s body.

You might have seen videos where a famous actor says something they never actually said. That is a deepfake. The AI listens to the actor’s voice and watches their mouth move. Then it pastes those sounds and mouth movements onto a different video. It is like swapping the engine of one toy car into another car. The outside looks different, but the inside power is the same. This helps movie makers create new scenes without filming new footage. It also helps teachers make history come alive by having old photos "speak" to students.

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So, deepfakes are just clever computer tricks. They use AI to mix and match features, making it hard to tell what is real and what is fake.