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MIT’s deepfake Vladimir Putin.
“This is the deepfake of @glichfield interviewing Vladimir Putin (wink wink nudge nudge),” Tech Review tweeted Wednesday.
The video shows Lichfield’s face being transformed with Putin’s facial features as he responds in Russian to questions on Russian interference in the 2020 election. It’s not the most convincing deepfake, but it shows how the technology is developing rapidly.
MIT’s EmTech conference is being held at its Media Lab — which has come under fire recently for accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein — in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Thursday. The conference focuses on the “convergence of technology, business [and] culture.”
Congress is investigating deepfakes following the appearance of doctored videos of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and amid fears that deepfakes could escalate the fake news campaign during the 2020 US presidential race.
Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook are also coming under pressure to find ways to more quickly detect and remove deepfakes from their platforms, along with abusive content, terror-related content, misinformation and fake news in the lead up to the election.
First published at 11:52 a.m. PT on Sept. 18. Updated at 2:21 p.m.: Lichfield, not the deepfake, was speaking in Russian
Originally published Sept. 18, 11:52 a.m. PT.