Times when DeepFake fooled the Internet.

There was a new TikTok channel, obviously we don't know about it because it's banned in India.

The TikTok account goes by the name "DeepTomCruise". It got viral. Everyone was shocked,

some found it creepy, some  find it cool. There was another viral video made by CorridorCrew, a famous

YouTube channel based on VFX. They made a scripted video where they are in a store, and they

find Keeanu Reeves in there the title of the video was named "Keanu Reeves stops Robbery."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dBiNGufIJw

this is the link to the video, I would recommend watching it. This was a regular humourous video with a

ittle bit of VFX. Every one thought it was a regular, everyone was a totally normal video.

Few days later CorridorCrew made another video titled "How We Faked Keanu Reeves Stopping a Robbery"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEFnbZ0Zd4

this video revealed that the video they made few days ago was a not entirely true. Everything was real

except Keanu Reeves. They asked Reuben, a voice actor and a stuntman to play as Keanu. The whole

process was not fast though, they had to train the A.I. for 10 days to get it to recognize Keanu's face right.

Even after the shoot they had to make adjustments like Keanu has long hairs and there were parts of the

video where the face was overlapping with the hair making the footage look a bit jittery, they had to

manually mask those parts out. The video was also recorded from a phone's camera as DeepFaked are

only 128 by 128 pixels which make them super small low res images. They had to train the A.I. to sharpen

it and that too took a lot of time. The end result they got though was a very well made DeepFake which

fooled a lot of people.  They also made a video on DeepFaking (Spoiler alert for Mandalorian, I will try to

write as little details as I could.)

We already know that Mandalorian takes place many years in the past, probably around the Rogue One

era. The point is, at the end they see a Jedi with a Green LightSaber in a hoodie, later revealed to be

Luke Skywalker from the original Star Wars. Luke Skywalker, originally played by Mark Hamil, appeared in

the first Star Wars movie, the 4th Part: A New Hope. That move was released back in 1977. The

Mandalorian is just a year older, released in 2020 so obviously they can’t use Mark Hamil for a movie that

takes place after the Return of the Jedi. And they can’t use anyone else for this iconic role. So they

DeepFaked it. The DeepFake was very debatable as some people thought it was well made and some

thought it didn't look right. CorridorCrew again made a video on 24th January 2021. Almost a month after

the release of the last Mandalorian episode. They made their own version of DeepFake which was far

better than what Disney did. A YouTube channel did a better job compared to a billion dollar company!

This whole process takes time and needs to be done by people with enough experience.

But not necessarily, anyone can just pay someone to make a DeepFake for them. DeepFake will absolutely

pose a great threat for the Society, but it could also be used in a good way. I don’t know what future holds

for DeepFakes, I could only assume that there are as little as possible DeepFakes, we can’t avoid them.