Travis L. Wagner|Ashley Blewer
“The Word Real Is No Longer Real”: Deepfakes, Gender, and the Challenges of AI-Altered Video
University of South Carolina|Film Independent
abstract nearimpossible casual consumers images authenticate digitallyaltered images without keen understanding read digital image photoshop photographic alteration advances artificial intelligence computer graphics made seamless video alteration seem real untrained eye colloquialism used describe videos deepfakes portmanteau deep learning ai faked imagery implications videos serving authentic representations matters especially rhetorics around fake news yet alteration software one deployable highend editing software free mobile apps remains critically examined one troubling example deepfakes superimposing womens faces pornographic videos implication reification womens bodies thing visually consumed circumventing consent use confounding considering bodies used perfect deepfakes men paper explores emergence distribution deepfakes continues enforce gendered disparities within visual information paper however rejects inevitability deepfakes arguing feminist oriented approaches artificial intelligence building critical approaches visual information literacy stifle distribution violently sexist deepfakes