Welp.
A trio of “deeply unsettling” Tom Cruise deepfake videos are going viral right now on TikTok and they’re so good that they’re fooling a popular face swap detector tool:
The first one shows the fake Tom Cruise on the golf course and the face swap was undetected:
Watch it here:
@deeptomcruise Sports!
The second one has the fake Tom Cruise talking about former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and, again, the face swap was undetected:
Watch:
@deeptomcruise
The third one has the fake Tom Cruise flipping a large coin. Face swap undetected:
Watch:
@deeptomcruise I love magic!
Yeah, this is going to be a problem going forward:
And this actually isn’t “*a lot* of work” for a state-sponsored intelligence organization to put together:
Well, we ARE creeped out by how it’s being used already:
Um, yeah. “Pause, assess the vid, and look for more clues” is not how people use social media:
It’s only a matter of time before this gets worse:
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