We Feared Deepfakes. Then Tech Monetized Them.

TikTok and Snap are experimenting with deepfake-style filters

Dave Gershgorn
OneZero
Published in
3 min readJan 9, 2020

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Image: Snap

DDeepfakes were going to be artificial intelligence’s first great scourge. According to journalists and experts in the last two years, the technology that automatically stitched and animated one person’s likeness onto another person’s body would be used by malicious actors to create…

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Dave Gershgorn
OneZero

Senior Writer at OneZero covering surveillance, facial recognition, DIY tech, and artificial intelligence. Previously: Qz, PopSci, and NYTimes.