This is in spite of diplomatic relations between the two countries being strained in recent years, with major Korean artists being unable to perform in China since 2016. Interestingly, Ajder says, the data shows that the majority of users in the online forums generating deepfakes aren’t from South Korea, but China, which plays host to one of the biggest K-pop markets in the world. K-pop stars are likely so overrepresented due to the explosive global popularity of K-pop in general, with estimates suggesting that the rise of bands like BTS and Blackpink have led to it becoming a more than $5 billion global industry the fact that pornography is illegal in South Korea, with nearly all online pornography websites currently blocked by the government, also probably plays a role. (The researchers chose not to name the individuals most-often targeted by pornographic deepfakes out of concern for their privacy.) Although the majority of pornographic deepfake subjects (41%) are of British or American actresses, nearly one-quarter (25%) of the women targeted are of South Korean descent and are classified by the researchers as South Korean musicians or K-pop singers. Additionally, the study sheds light on who, exactly, is most often being featured in such content. A new study from Deeptrace Labs, however, a cybersecurity company that detects and monitors deepfakes, suggests that the biggest threat posed by deepfakes has little to do with politics at all, and that women all over the world may be at risk.Īccording to the study, which was released Monday, the vast majority of deepfakes on the internet - nearly 96% - are used in nonconsensual porn, meaning that they feature the likenesses of female subjects without their consent. The video, which debuted May 8, has earned over 38 million views on YouTube.Īs for the scrapped deepfake movie, will it ever end up being made? “I don’t know, could be running again,” Stone said, noting a timely window could end up opening for the project to be made.When we talk about deepfakes, the term used to describe a type of digitally manipulated videos, most of the discussion is focused on the implications of deepfake technology for spreading fake news and potentially even destabilizing elections, particularly the upcoming U.S. The studio would later join forces with Kendrick Lamar for his “The Heart Part 5” video, which went viral for using deepfake technology to put the faces of Will Smith and more on Lamar’s body. Serafinowicz was going to voice the Trump deepfake, just as he did in “Sassy Justice.” Stone added, “Even though the script was sort of timely, we ended up keeping the deep fake part of the studio going.”ĭeep Voodoo ended up working on “Sassy Justice” instead once the feature-length deepfake project fell through because of the pandemic. And it was this whole funny thing because, of course, it ends up with Trump just naked and getting run through the wringer and everything, and that’s why it was so funny and so timely.” “It was about this guy who looked exactly like Trump because we deep fake Trump’s face onto him. “It was going to be ‘Deep Fake: The Movie,'” Parker said.
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Stone and Parker founded Deep Voodoo because of the movie they planned to make. “We’d have to majorly rethink it to do it now.” Stone said the deepfake movie is “sort of on hold.” Why? “It was very timely and the timeliness of it has passed,” Parker added. It was months and months of getting ready for that movie, to just being like, ‘Nope, it’s over.’ I went to the office to start packing up my things because I was just kind of in shock.” “We were going to start shooting on the day that the pandemic shut everything down. “Not a lot of people know that we were a day away from starting production on the first feature movie we had done since ‘Team America: World Police,'” Parker said.
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