Desifakes Real Video 2021 | Cross-Platform Real |

At first, people treated it like a party trick. A politician’s smile stretched into an unguarded confession. A beloved actor mouthed words written by anonymous pranksters. Creators laughed and posted side-by-sides, the real and the rendered—then tucked the jokes into feeds and went on. But the novelty curdled fast. The same cleverness that let someone animate a celebrity’s performance could be used to animate malice.