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Deepfake is content or material that is generated or manipulated using AI methods, to pass off as real. There are four different deepfake types: audio, video, image and text. In this research we focus on audio deepfakes and how people…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Gabrielle Watson , Zahra Khanjani , Vandana P. Janeja

Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust. With the increasing accessibility of generative AI, tools for voice cloning, face-swapping, and synthetic media creation have advanced significantly,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Claudiu Popa , Rex Pallath , Liam Cunningham , Hewad Tahiri , Abiram Kesavarajah , Tao Wu

Deep Learning has been successfully applied in diverse fields, and its impact on deepfake detection is no exception. Deepfakes are fake yet realistic synthetic content that can be used deceitfully for political impersonation, phishing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ammarah Hashmi , Sahibzada Adil Shahzad , Chia-Wen Lin , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

Conspicuous progression in the field of machine learning and deep learning have led the jump of highly realistic fake media, these media oftentimes referred as deepfakes. Deepfakes are fabricated media which are generated by sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Aniruddha Tiwari , Rushit Dave , Mounika Vanamala

One of the most terrifying phenomenon nowadays is the DeepFake: the possibility to automatically replace a person's face in images and videos by exploiting algorithms based on deep learning. This paper will present a brief overview of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Cristina Nastasi , Sebastiano Battiato

The rapid advancement of deepfake technologies, specifically designed to create incredibly lifelike facial imagery and video content, has ignited a remarkable level of interest and curiosity across many fields, including forensic analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Harshika Goyal , Mohammad Saif Wajid , Mohd Anas Wajid , Akib Mohi Ud Din Khanday , Mehdi Neshat , Amir Gandomi

The rapid proliferation of AI-generated content, driven by advances in generative adversarial networks, diffusion models, and multimodal large language models, has made the creation and dissemination of synthetic media effortless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Guangyu Lin , Li Lin , Christina P. Walker , Daniel S. Schiff , Shu Hu

How can we best address the dangerous impact that deep learning-generated fake audios, photographs, and videos (a.k.a. deepfakes) may have in personal and societal life? We foresee that the availability of cheap deepfake technology will…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Claudio S. Pinhanez , German H. Flores , Marisa A. Vasconcelos , Mu Qiao , Nick Linck , Rogério de Paula , Yuya J. Ong

Deepfakes - manipulated or forged audio and video media - pose significant security risks to individuals, organizations, and society at large. To address these challenges, machine learning-based classifiers are commonly employed to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nicolas Müller , Piotr Kawa , Adriana Stan , Thien-Phuc Doan , Souhwan Jung , Wei Herng Choong , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

DeepFake, an AI technology for creating facial forgeries, has garnered global attention. Amid such circumstances, forensics researchers focus on developing defensive algorithms to counter these threats. In contrast, there are techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bing Fan , Shu Hu , Feng Ding

Social engineering (SE) is a form of deception that aims to trick people into giving access to data, information, networks and even money. For decades SE has been a key method for attackers to gain access to an organization, virtually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yisroel Mirsky

Deepfake is content or material that is synthetically generated or manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) methods, to be passed off as real and can include audio, video, image, and text synthesis. This survey has been conducted with…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zahra Khanjani , Gabrielle Watson , Vandana P. Janeja

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are likely to affect social engineering and change cyber defense operations. The broad and sweeping nature of AI impact means that many aspects of social engineering could be automated,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Krystal A. Jackson

Deepfake videos are defined as a resulting media from the synthesis of different persons images and videos, mostly faces, replacing a real one. The easy spread of such videos leads to elevated misinformation and represents a threat to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Nikolaos Misirlis , Harris Bin Munawar

Deepfake is a deep learning-based technique that makes it easy to change or modify images and videos. In investigations and court, visual evidence is commonly employed, but these pieces of evidence may now be suspect due to technological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kundan Patil , Shrushti Kale , Jaivanti Dhokey , Abhishek Gulhane

Generative deep learning algorithms have progressed to a point where it is difficult to tell the difference between what is real and what is fake. In 2018, it was discovered how easy it is to use this technology for unethical and malicious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Yisroel Mirsky , Wenke Lee

A deepfake is a photo or video of a person whose image has been digitally altered or partially replaced with an image of someone else. Deepfakes have the potential to cause a variety of problems and are often used maliciously. A common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-01 Natalie Krueger , Mounika Vanamala , Rushit Dave

The proliferation of malicious deepfake applications has ignited substantial public apprehension, casting a shadow of doubt upon the integrity of digital media. Despite the development of proficient deepfake detection mechanisms, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hong Sun , Ziqiang Li , Lei Liu , Bin Li

Generative AI (Gen-AI) deepfakes pose a rapidly evolving threat to biometric authentication, yet a significant gap exists between expert understanding of these risks and public perception. This disconnection creates critical vulnerabilities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shijing He , Yaxiong Lei , Zihan Zhang , Yuzhou Sun , Shujun Li , Chi Zhang , Juan Ye

According to the 2020 cyber threat defence report, 78% of Canadian organizations experienced at least one successful cyberattack in 2020. The consequences of such attacks vary from privacy compromises to immersing damage costs for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amin Azmoodeh , Ali Dehghantanha