These are not simple Photoshop edits. Modern deepfake technology uses deep learning algorithms—specifically Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)—to swap faces or generate entirely new images from scratch. The result is often video footage that looks indistinguishable from reality.
Within 2 hours of a popular girl group’s Christmas-stage performance, over 400 deepfake images and 12 video clips were generated and spread across three platforms. The perpetrator used a zero-shot AI model fine-tuned specifically on the group’s winter wardrobe from the past 3 years. kpop winter deepfake exclusive