TY - BOOK ID - 101160373 TI - Deepfakes AU - Kalpokas, Ignas AU - Kalpokiene, Julija AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2022 SN - 9783030938024 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer DB - UniCat KW - Computers and civilization. KW - Deepfakes KW - Political aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Deep fakes KW - Deepfake AI KW - Disinformation KW - Forgery KW - Civilization and computers KW - Civilization KW - Political sociology. KW - Science KW - Science and society KW - Sociology of science KW - Mass political behavior KW - Political behavior KW - Political science KW - Sociology KW - Sociological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101160373 AB - This book examines the use and potential impact of deepfakes, a type of synthetic computer-generated media, primarily images and videos, capable of both creating artificial representations of non-existent individuals and showing actual individuals doing things they did not do. As such, deepfakes pose an obvious threat of manipulation and, unsurprisingly, have been the subject of a great deal of alarmism in both the news media and academic articles. Hence, this book sets out to critically evaluate potential threats by analyzing human susceptibility to manipulation and using that as a backdrop for a discussion of actual and likely uses of deepfakes. ER -