cheapfake

plural cheapfakes

1. neologismengineeringA fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms.

   Aciman also noted that "cheapfakes" and other manipulated media may still be removed if it violates the platform's other policies around, say, misinformation or hate speech.

   2023 December 18, Vittoria Elliott, “Worried About Political Deepfakes? Beware the Spread of ’Cheapfakes’”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2023

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   "Cheapfakes" rely on free software that allows manipulation through easy conventional editing techniques like speeding, slowing, and cutting, as well as nontechnical manipulations like restaging or recontextualizing existing footage that are already causing problems.

   2019 June 12, Joan Donovan, Britt Paris, “Beware the Cheapfakes”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2023

   Now that global superpowers are openly sharing cheapfakes on social media, what's to stop them (or any other actor) from deploying more sophisticated visual disinformation as it emerges?

   2020 December 22, Nina Schick, “Don't underestimate the cheapfake”, in MIT Technology Review, Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2023