Yes, something like that was in our newspaper. The only difference was that High School girls were targeted. Scary...would hate to be on trial and have a doctored photo be the "evidence".
I'm giving a demonstration Saturday to a photography group in my retirement community about the new and useful tools Adobe is providing in their newest software. With that coming up, your title was effective click bait. I read the article.
Did you notice the emphasis on words like "deepfake". The two developers were trying to show "worst possible". They put a smartphone in a fake camera box that sends it to cloud computing and back!
Manipulating or "developing" photos is part of, and as old, as photography itself.
I shouldn't be spending time reading junk like that let alone writing a response!
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