Aside from a few programs developed by researchers, most publicly-available deepfake software still needs to be trained on a dataset consisting of hundreds of photographs of the face that is being deepfaked. But this limitation-the fact that most people don't have hundreds of high-definition images of one ordinary person stored readily at hand-can be bypassed by using a single video. A 15-second Instagram story has 450 individual frames, which is enough to create a dataset of a face, or "faceset," which can train a machine learning algorithm to render your face onto another body.
Limiting your social media presence may not be enough to protect you, either. This victim-blaming attitude goes against what privacy experts say: that while limiting online exposure of your likeness is a good step, even if you keep your images offline, there's no surefire way to protect yourself against bad actors who want to target you with a deepfake.
Aside from a few programs developed by researchers, most publicly-available deepfake software still needs to be trained on a dataset consisting of hundreds of photographs of the face that is being deepfaked. But this limitation-the fact that most people don't have hundreds of high-definition images of one ordinary person stored readily at hand-can be bypassed by using a single video. A 15-second Instagram story has 450 individual frames, which is enough to create a dataset of a face, or "faceset," which can train a machine learning algorithm to render your face onto another body.
Limiting your social media presence may not be enough to protect you, either. This victim-blaming attitude goes against what privacy experts say: that while limiting online exposure of your likeness is a good step, even if you keep your images offline, there's no surefire way to protect yourself against bad actors who want to target you with a deepfake.
