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cheapfake

cheapfake noun: a fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms.

Noun

cheapfake (plural cheapfakes)

  1. (neologism) A fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms.
    • "Cheapfakes" rely on free software that allows manipulation through easy conventional editing techniques like speeding, slowing, and cutting, as well as nontechnical manipulations like restaging or recontextualizing existing footage that are already causing problems.2019 June 12, Joan Donovan, Britt Paris, “Beware the Cheapfakes”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2023
    • Now that global superpowers are openly sharing cheapfakes on social media, what's to stop them (or any other actor) from deploying more sophisticated visual disinformation as it emerges?2020 December 22, Nina Schick, “Don't underestimate the cheapfake”, in MIT Technology Review, Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04...

Forms of cheapfake

pluralcheapfakes

Origin of cheapfake

Compound of cheap + fake, modelled after deepfake.

Questions about cheapfake

What does cheapfake mean?
Cheapfake means a fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms.
What part of speech is cheapfake?
Cheapfake is a noun.
What is the plural of cheapfake?
The plural of cheapfake is cheapfakes.

Words near cheapfake in the dictionary

  1. cheaperies
  2. cheapernet
  3. cheapernets
  4. cheapery
  5. cheapest
  6. cheapfake
  7. cheapfakes
  8. cheapflation
  9. cheapie
  10. cheapies
  11. cheaping

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