Deepfake videos create false memories – but so do fake articles


Individuals bear in mind nonexistent movie remakes after seeing deepfakes

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Deepfakes that insert an actor into films they by no means starred in are convincing sufficient to create false recollections of Hollywood movie remakes that by no means existed. However researchers additionally discovered that deepfakes would not have a uniquely highly effective affect on individuals’s minds in comparison with the standard written phrase.

“We’ve accomplished a few tasks making an attempt to determine how a lot worse deepfakes are than the rest when it comes to reminiscence and misinformation,” says Gillian Murphy at College School Cork in Eire. “And we’re …

Article amended on 21 July 2023

We corrected the proportion of people that thought the deepfake remakes really existed