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The video, which appeared on the online forum Reddit, was what’s known as a “deepfake” — an ultrarealistic fake video made with artificial intelligence software.

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“Deepfake” porn – producing fake pornographic images based on pictures of real people – is the latest tech-enabled sexual abuse to attract demands for a ban .

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The word deepfake – now used as a catch-all term to describe any digitally manipulated image or video that can look convincingly real – was originally coined to refer to pornography, points out Henry Ajder, a deepfakes and AI expert who has been researching this for years, and has advised the UK government on legislation.

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The low-tech “cheapfake” images differ from recent incidents in schools where students used artificial intelligence apps to generate real-looking, digitally altered images known as “deepfakes.”

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A deepfake refers to a specific kind of synthetic media where a person in an image or video is swapped with another person's likeness.The term “deepfake” was first coined in late 2017 by a Reddit user of the same name. This user created a space on the online news and aggregation site, where they shared pornographic videos that used open source face-swapping technology.The term has since expanded to include “synthetic media applications” that existed before the Reddit page and new creations like StyleGAN — “realistic-looking still images of people that don’t exist,” said Henry Ajder, head of threat intelligence at deepfake detection company Deeptrace.

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In 2023, researchers found that English and Mandarin speakers could differentiate between real and deepfake voices about 70 per cent of the time.

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Peter Eisert at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications in Germany and his colleagues developed a deepfake detector that could analyse the pulses of people in genuine and deepfake videos.

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“Just because one or a few deepfake generators can reproduce this physiological signal, it doesn’t mean that all deepfake generators can,” says Farid.

Deepfake makers can now evade an unusual detection method Jeremy Hsu 2025

Instead, the most effective detection techniques attempt to identify more subtle differences between genuine and deepfake videos, such as image pixel brightness, that are “non-intuitive to human viewers”, says Lyu.

Deepfake makers can now evade an unusual detection method Jeremy Hsu 2025

Previously, researchers had experimented with spotting deepfakes by identifying changes in skin colour related to blood flow and heart rate, but this research shows that some deepfake videos can still present a passable pulse.

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