We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

Last week noticed the launch of Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, the primary ever deepfake comedy. We want to start out speaking in regards to the authorized and moral implications of this know-how, says New Scientist’s tv columnist Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

LAST week, UK streaming service ITVX unleashed a world first. It got here within the type of a sketch present by which a few of the world’s greatest stars, from actor Idris Elba to local weather campaigner Greta Thunberg, are reimagined as squabbling neighbours, drawing battle traces over communal gardens and Christmas decorations.

More vital than these quarrels between well-known faces, although, is how these faces had been created. Deep Fake Neighbour Wars takes the voices and our bodies of impressionists, then marries them with digital variations of movie star visages. Welcome to the primary ever deepfake comedy.

I’ve began watching and I gained’t fake …