The video, a joint venture from Peele's Monkey Paw Productions and BuzzFeed, is meant as a PSA to warn people about the existence of deepfakes. (news.avclub.com)
A little under two months after deepfakes effectively went viral, the practice has become more widespread and even easier to perform, with another Redditor creating a user - friendly piece of software known as FakeApp that lets basically anyone start training a neural network to perform these face swaps. (theverge.com)
As the rise of r / deepfakes illustrates, it's easy for the technology to rapidly advance when many users are collectively working with and learning about it. (vox.com)