How to Use deepfake in a Sentence
deepfake
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As noted, deepfakes have become too good and too easy to make.
—Giacomo Miceli, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2023
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Voice changers, stand-ins, and deepfakes have all been used to slip through screenings.
—Michael Barnhart, Fortune, 3 July 2025
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Look for common telltale signs that a piece of media could be a deepfake.
—Audrey Nguyen, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
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There’s a deepfake of the movie with my face instead of Jack Black’s.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
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Celebrities have warned followers not to be duped by the deepfakes.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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How much of a factor is this going to be, these deepfakes and misleading ads?
—CBS News, 28 May 2023
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It can also be used to make fake images of real people, called deepfakes.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
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China is cracking down on deepfakes at home while profiting from them abroad.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2023
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In the meantime, the rise of malicious deepfakes could cause more states to outlaw their use.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 5 June 2023
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Some tweets from that account containing deepfakes had been online for weeks.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 12 June 2023
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There is time for enterprises to make plans on how to proceed to protect against deepfakes.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2021
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Could a last-minute deepfake deter a decisive few thousand voters in a swing state?
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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This announcement is not the first time a tech company has shared plans to help spot real-time deepfakes.
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
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In the beginning, the researchers trained their neural network to spot one kind of deepfake.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Sep. 2021
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Scammers are using live deepfakes in video calls, changing their race, gender, and voice in real time.
—Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
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The body in the deepfake doesn’t match Elordi, who has a distinctive birthmark on his chest.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 19 June 2024
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Most are aimed at slices of AI, such as the use of deepfakes in elections or to make pornography.
—CBS News, 24 May 2024
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This week also saw what may be the first use of a deepfake to spread misinformation during wartime.
—Andrew Couts, Wired, 19 Mar. 2022
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The potential of deepfakes as a kind of reckless pornographic weapon is already in full swing.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
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Researchers say the technology for real-time deepfakes has been around for the better part of a decade.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
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That's one of the challenges with deepfakes in the political context.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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Thanks to Elon Musk’s retweet, one of those deepfakes has been viewed more than 143 million times.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
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Forcing the removal of even a single deepfake often involves a lengthy legal process.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
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The murky legal status of deepfakes is not the only issue causing concern.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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Some states have banned deepfakes, but so far, there is no federal law that could push Google to be more proactive in delisting links.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 14 May 2024
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While many of the victims are public figures, deepfakes have also been used to victimize girls in schools worldwide.
—Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 6 July 2024
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In the political sphere, lawmakers have tried to get out ahead of deepfakes, which are made without consent.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
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That's the unsettling reality many face with the surge of deepfakes, and celebrities are the prime targets.
—Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2023
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The rise of deepfakes, the persistence of doubt Doubt has been a political weapon since ancient times.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
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However, it was quickly revealed as an AI deepfake when users noticed the man had three arms.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
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