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A photograph can lie, we know that: but how about a video?

An article in The Atlantic, “The age of fake video begins”, reveals the problems we now face thanks to the development of machine learning: it is now perfectly possible to easily create videos using just about any effect, from inserting the head of one person onto the body of another that is just about impossible to detect for the untrained eye, to change how somebody’s lips move or even…