Just showed my grandma a deepfake of her younger self and she laughed for 5 minutes

I used some old photos and video clips to make a short clip of my grandma singing her favorite song from the 1950s. She was visiting my place in Portland last weekend and I played it for her. She said it looked like a ghost of her past and asked me how I did it. Have any of you shown a deepfake to someone who didn't know about them yet?

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sean_green444d ago

That line about her saying it looked like a ghost of her past is priceless. I showed my uncle a deepfake of himself getting chased by a T-Rex and he just stared at the screen like it was a security footage of a crime. He asked me if I edited him into Jurassic Park and I told him no, that the dinosaurs were real and I just filmed him running. He actually believed me for a solid 10 seconds before he started laughing. I think the best part is watching older people try to wrap their heads around the idea that video isn't real anymore. It's like explaining wifi to a cat.

jakewhite4d ago

Three percent of people in a 2022 study couldn't tell a deepfake from a real video even when they were told one was fake. Your uncle might have believed it for a second, but my grandpa would have spent the whole time trying to figure out how the camera followed him through the woods. That's the problem I see here - we act like older people are naive, but they've been burned by scams and fake photos their whole lives. Your uncle played along for a laugh, but that doesn't mean he's confused. I'd argue the joke is on us for assuming video was ever really truthful in the first place.

nathan1003d ago

Three percent is still way too many.