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Indic Pacific Glossary

Deepfakes

Date of Addition

22 Mar 2025

Synthetic media where a person's likeness in existing image or video content is replaced with someone else's using artificial intelligence techniques. Modern deepfakes increasingly span multiple modalities, combining manipulated video, audio, and text for greater realism.


The multimodal dimension of deepfakes is particularly concerning from a detection standpoint. While early deepfakes focused primarily on visual manipulation, contemporary techniques integrate synchronized speech, realistic facial expressions, and contextually appropriate language to create convincing forgeries across multiple channels. Research into deepfake detection increasingly emphasizes multimodal analysis that integrates visual and auditory data for more comprehensive detection. This approach acknowledges that examining a single modality (such as just analyzing video frames) is insufficient when dealing with sophisticated multimodal deepfakes that maintain consistency across different information channels.

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