<story><title>Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blunte</author><text>From TFA (and making assumptions about the woman), I don&amp;#x27;t believe these were &amp;quot;deepfakes&amp;quot;.  It sounds like it was just the usual Photoshop kind of stuff.  And in that regard, it&amp;#x27;s just another sad story about some people with issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phreack</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard for the general public to grasp the difference between a photoshopped image and one generated with ML processes, so I expect both will be called &amp;quot;deep fakes&amp;quot; by the media for the foreseeable future.</text></comment>
<story><title>Woman created deepfake videos to force rivals off daughter’s cheerleading squad</title><url>https://www.inquirer.com/news/bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blunte</author><text>From TFA (and making assumptions about the woman), I don&amp;#x27;t believe these were &amp;quot;deepfakes&amp;quot;.  It sounds like it was just the usual Photoshop kind of stuff.  And in that regard, it&amp;#x27;s just another sad story about some people with issues.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>martey</author><text>I think this quote suggests you are right:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The videos were analyzed, and detectives were able to determine they were “deepfakes” — digitally altered but realistic-looking images — created by mapping the girls’ social media photos onto other images...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both this article (and the Inquirer article it is based and basically plagiarizes - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inquirer.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cyberbullying-deepfake-20210312.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.inquirer.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;bucks-county-raffaela-spone-cy...&lt;/a&gt;) seem to be confused about the difference between photos and videos and seem to imply that they are interchangeable. It would be interesting to read the actual affidavit and see if it contains the same confusion, or if this is something caused by the Inquirer&amp;#x27;s reporting.</text></comment>