Neil DodgsonNeil Dodgson

Neil Dodgson is Professor of Computer Graphics at Victoria University of Wellington and chair of Victoria’s Spearheading Digital Futures multidisciplinary team addressing the opportunities and challenges of the digital age.

Face-swap on steroids: How ‘deepfake’ videos are messing with reality

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Deepfake software has been used to create pornographic videos using the face of celebrities like Emma Watson, Natalie Portman and Gal Gadot. But in the age of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’, the deepfake problem could get a lot worse, explains computer graphics professor Neil Dodgson. Over the past few weeks, a large number of … Read more