Get Ready for TikTok Deepfakes

TikTok Face Swap

Ready to put your face on someone else’s TikTok video? ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has built a face-swapping feature that may be incorporated into TikTok, as well as Douyin.

The unreleased feature creates realistic-looking deepfakes that TikTok calls “Face Swap.”

Chinese face-swapping app Zao is so good that WeChat blocked it because it posed a security risk.

When will deepfakes be available to 1.5 billion TikTok and Douyin users at the touch of a button? Your guess is as good as mine. But… get ready. This technology is here. Now. And it is going to be packaged for consumers soon.

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About Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular daily business blog. He's a bestselling author, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.

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