Nowadays, there are getting more and more technologies created in this whole wide world for all the people. Initially, these technologies are created to help mankind to have a better and also easier future. Unfortunately, the twisted-minded people are getting more creative on using all these kinds of technologies to create bad things for themselves.
Talking about bad things, recent issues nowadays are getting so hot talking about the technologies of ‘deepfake’ and also the technologies of ‘shallowfake’. Both of these inventions have created so many problems for so many people worldwide and people have to know about them. A TikToker that goes by the name DigitalWithD has posted about it.
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Deepfake
Deepfake video exploits two machine learning (ML) models. An algorithm that could transpose any faces seamlessly onto videos. It is a synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness.
Shallowfake
Shallowfake has actually created videos that have been manually altered or selectively edited. Shallowfake first become popularized in early 2018. It is a method of manipulating media content without the use of machine learning technology and algorithmic systems. Instead, shallowfake utilizes simple video editing software to alter existing media content.
Sources: TikTok DigitalWithD Part 1, TikTok DigitalWithD Part 2.
