Deepfake videos create false memories – but so do fake articles

Deepfakes that insert an actor into motion pictures they by no means starred in are convincing sufficient to create false recollections of Hollywood movie remakes that by no means existed. But researchers additionally discovered that deepfakes should not have a uniquely highly effective affect on individuals’s minds in comparison with the standard written phrase.

“We’ve done a couple of projects trying to establish how much worse deepfakes are than anything else in terms of memory and misinformation,” says Gillian Murphy at University College Cork in Ireland. “And we’re …