This was a well made, interesting documentary about an ultra modern social issue that is unlikely to get any better before it gets alot worse. Deepfake pornography is the transposing of somebody's face electronically onto existing porn. This evidentaly doesn't just happen to celebrities, but in this case an academic US graduate. Her face, and all her details (name, history, hime town etc.) are harvested from social media and multiple phantom porn performer profiles are created. Only out of chance is she ever aware of this happening. One of the scary things is that the identity fraud is so precise and thorough, anyone she knows could have seen this and been utterly convinced by it without her ever being aware.
I do like a good documentary, but I wouldn't say I was a fan of the 'genre'. I liked the way this one used the deepfake technology throughout to show us how convincing it can be, and there were some nice cinematic shots and creative touches which elevated it from a factual case study. It achieved it's goal of educatung but also created empathy with the subjects. There was alot of focus on the student subject, named Taylor, I would have liked at least a short exploration into how widespread this really is to show the scale of the misuse globally, it was touched on but not explored.
The Internet, more precisely use of the Internet, is a strange beast. This invention can be utterly life changing in so many ways, to the best and worst degrees. The thing is that often you have no say about how it will change you specifically- it has entirely infiltrated and shaped the modern world forever, and as a result, humanity.
3.5 out of 5
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