Channel: BBC Trending

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: How do deepfakes work? In this video we meet some of the people who are trying to develop a new method of creating a deepfake from one single image - but how are the results? While the technology behind deepfakes has been in development for a while, it’s only been in the last few years that it has become good enough to trick people on a wide scale, using the power of social media. Some experts say that in that in a year it may be tough to tell which videos on our timelines are real and which ones are fake. Listen to the full programme here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyvnd Reporter: Sean Allsop Video Journalist: Gerard Groves --------------------------------- BBC Trending is the BBC’s social media investigation team, bringing you in-depth reporting on our online lives.