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Glossary Term Deepfake

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What is Deepfake?

A deepfake is AI-generated synthetic media that fabricates a person's face or voice, enabling fraud, social engineering, and disinformation.

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Understanding Deepfake

A deepfake is synthetic media in which a person's likeness, voice, or actions are convincingly fabricated or altered using deep learning techniques such as generative adversarial networks and autoencoders. Deepfakes pose security risks including identity fraud, social engineering, business email compromise via voice cloning, and disinformation campaigns. Detecting them is increasingly difficult as generative models improve in fidelity.

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