TXST professor discusses deepfakes with Big Ideas podcast

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Dale Blasingame, an assistant professor of practice in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University, joins the Big Ideas TXST podcast to discuss the era of deepfakes.

Deepfakes refer to the use of artificial intelligence applications to create convincing, lifelike audio and video reproductions of individuals, often celebrities. Crucially, the deepfakes can behave in ways without the approval or consent of the individual being faked and can be misused for fake product endorsements, political gain or even pornography. The technology behind deepfakes is advancing so rapidly that even experts are finding it increasingly difficult to tell the difference between fakes and reality.