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cheapfakes

cheapfakes is the plural of cheapfake.

Meaning of cheapfake

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

Questions about cheapfakes

What is cheapfakes the plural of?
Cheapfakes is the plural of cheapfake.

Words near cheapfakes in the dictionary

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

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