Mysteries of Science Deepfakes
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Jan 30, 2026 Ben Garside, content creator at the Raspberry Pi Foundation who explains digital tech and AI, guides a tour of deepfake tech. He outlines how AI creates believable images, video and speech. He discusses movie uses like de‑aging and the ethics around recreating people. He offers practical tips for spotting and verifying suspicious media.
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AI Is Behind Deepfakes
- Deepfakes use AI to make videos or audio that look or sound like someone else.
- The term
How GANs Teach AIs To Fake Reality
- GANs pit a generator against a discriminator to iteratively improve fake media.
- The discriminator rejects poor outputs until the generator fools it.
Rogue One Example
- Ben recalls Rogue One using effects to recreate Princess Leia's younger appearance.
- He presents this as a positive, cinematic use of deepfake-like tech.