How the pros make deepfakes I Deepfakes explained?

Deepfakes are like when someone uses special computer tricks to make it look like a person is saying or doing something they're not.

Imagine you have a picture of your friend smiling, and you want to put that smile on a video where they’re telling a silly joke. The pros use computers to copy the way their face moves, like how your face changes when you laugh, frown, or blink, and then paste that onto another person’s face in a different video.

1. The pros start with lots of pictures or videos of the person they want to copy.
2. They use special computer tools to figure out how each part of their face moves, like how your lips move when you talk, or how your eyes squint when you laugh.
3. Then they take a video where someone else is talking and replace that person’s face with the copied one, making it look like the first person is saying the new words!

It's like taking a sticker of your friend's face and putting it on a different picture, but instead of just sticking it on, the computer makes it move naturally, so it looks real.