Deepfake used in Assange interview

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[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If this is a deepfake it's very well done. Many other deepfakes you can spot because the mouth seems off and sometimes the eyes. I think weiner_mcpoophead's explanation in the reddit thread is plausible:

This is a fluid morph edit. He probably said "Ummm..." or they cut an entire line of dialogue out. This would then result in a jump cut, but adding a fluid morph on it lets AI create artificial frames between the removed section to blend the cut points together. It's just a super advanced fade.

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I read the explanations, I thought they were talking about regular a regular morph cut. This explanation actually sounds plausible. I didn't realize AI was used in video editing back in 2016, but Wikipedia implies that it did:

By 2016, the market for AI-related products, hardware, and software reached more than 8 billion dollars, and the New York Times reported that interest in AI had reached a "frenzy".[207] The applications of big data began to reach into other fields as well, such as training models in ecology[208] and for various applications in economics.[209] Advances in deep learning (particularly deep convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks) drove progress and research in image and video processing, text analysis, and even speech recognition.[210]

Source.

That's good enough for me.