forget the idea of seeing is believing new technology is making digital media manipulation easier than ever the result phony videos that are popping up online CBS 2's Natalie Doug Finch has the story you may have seen this video circulating the Internet ostensibly of former President Obama delivering a speech that he never actually made it's part of an online video trend called deep fake and it's hard to tell what's real and what's not it's very concerning because as people gets better with this software they will be able to not just put celebrities that will be able
to put like their neighbor you know in a video and compromising that person Pereira is the vice president of a cybersecurity firm he says in recent months the video started appearing on an online forum called reddit created by a program called fake app it superimposes videos like this of actor Nicolas Cage's face on another characters body and they break your face down into smaller and smaller pieces and then overlaid the picture you want like an eclectic a just photograph on top of that until recently the artificial intelligence video technology was only used by major Hollywood
productions but social media apps like snapchat have made this face morphing technology all too easy tech experts are worried it could have serious moral implications like framing people for crimes or most recently putting celebrities faces on x-rated actors if they're putting it on like porn stars or something you know like that could be detrimental to some people's careers in general with technology it just kind of like freaks me out reddit took steps to ban a number of deep fake groups that had tens of thousands of members but tech experts say people are still accessing the
tool on the dark web and everyone should be wary of the digital media manipulation natalie dead roots CBS 2 news many of these deep fake videos are also been banned by other social media sites including twitter can't even tell what is what scary stuff that's
