This Video Of Barack Obama Is The Perfect Example Of Fake News

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A video supposedly showing Barack Obama call the current President Donald Trump a ā€œtotal and complete dipsh*tā€ has appeared on Youtube.

Except of course he hasnā€™t. The video is completely fake.

It is in fact a collaboration between Buzzfeed and ā€œGet Outā€ director Jordan Peele to show us just how far AI-powered video editing has come and the potential dangers it can pose in the rise of fake news.

In the past weā€™ve seen video footage which shows how you can use AI to alter a personā€™s face to make it seem as though theyā€™re saying something completely different.

According to The Verge, the video was put together by Peeleā€™s own company company Monkeypaw productions.

Using a combination of AI tools like FakeApp and and professional video editing the team were able to turn Obamaā€™s face into a moveable model which they could then adjust along with his own voice to make it look and sound as though heā€™s saying something completely different.

In this example from last year, the University of Washington was able to take a speech made by Obama and then apply it to a computer-generated video of him in a completely different location.

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