Reuters releases guide to recognizing deepfake profile photos from r/technology

https://graphics.reuters.com/CYBER-DEEPFAKE/ACTIVIST/nmovajgnxpa/index.html

GAN A generative adversarial network is the name given to dueling computer programs that run through a process of trial and error…  One program, the generator, sequentially fires out millions of attempts at a face; the second program, the discriminator, tries to sniff out whether the first program’s face is a fake. If the discriminator can’t tell, Li said, a deepfake is produced.

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more on deepfake in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deepfake