The Rise of Deepfakes: How AI Changed Porn, Politics, and Reality - BBC World Service Documentaries

A history of the technology and subsequent use and abuse of deepfakes. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Beginning with a little-known 1994 Photoshop demo in which a programmer digitally cloned his girlfriend, this film follows the evolution of fake imagery through internet hoaxes, celebrity porn, and the breakthrough AI technology that made it possible to generate entirely convincing people from scratch. Meet Ian Goodfellow, the creator of the AI tech behind deepfakes - as he explains how he first made AI generated images, and predicts that the computers will continue to get better at faking indefinitely. Uncover early deepfake porn communities, through messages shared with the first journalist to report on deepfakes globally. Hear from a young journalist, who speaks out about her experience of deepfake nudification and how it can happen to anyone. **Correction: Julie Yukari's name was spelt incorrectly in this video. 00:00 Photoshop’s first test 00:44 Introduction 02:16 Early internet fake nudes 02:50 Ed Lake: the “Fake Detective” 03:20 Ian Goodfellow: the engineer who invented GANs 05:07 Samantha Cole uncovered the first deepfake porn online 06:25 “Nudify” apps online 06:51 Julie’s story 08:27 Political deepfakes: danger to democracy 09:18 Governments combatting deepfakes 10:09 Conclusion Watch more of our explainers here 👉🏽    • Explaining the world   Watch more documentaries from across BBC World Service here 👉🏽    • All BBC World Service Documentaries   ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #deepfakes #photoshop #generativeai