For you legal types: Is there anything Tom Cruise or anyone else can do if their face is being used in this way? https://t.co/m1C54A8LAr

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) February 26, 2021

It’s the voice acting, and the switching from grin to not-grin, that’s so impressive: the deepfakery is excellent but so is all the rest. https://t.co/oU735hPOQj

— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) February 26, 2021

The threat-vector for deep fakes is not in copy-pasting celebrities

(which, easily disavowed and black-labeled)

But in creating videos of the believable and sympathetic (and artificial) masses, to be amplified by a credulous media and latched onto by craven politicians. https://t.co/2c2zlvuncr

— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) February 26, 2021

Welp! The convincing deepfakes have arrived.

Not difficult to imagine how this could cause chaos in politics. https://t.co/sHMWbCbLpM

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) February 26, 2021

So, how are we all feeling about #deepfakes becoming more and more of an everyday reality? Considering that people can‘t even tell the difference between journalism and conspiracies...?

“Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok” https://t.co/unSfbAz1N4

— Brian Solis (@briansolis) February 27, 2021

We are doomed https://t.co/wiQ0PgWbVr

— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) February 26, 2021

We’re probably 12 months away from deep fakes being indistinguishable from real videos, and after that I have no idea what happens. https://t.co/einh9XH3hJ

— Oli Franklin-Wallis (@olifranklin) February 26, 2021

Are we sure it’s not Mission: Impossible DeepMask technology? ? https://t.co/xpdeXV42gx

— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) February 26, 2021

Video evidence is now dead. It can no longer be trusted.
Congrats to the govt agencies everywhere on not adequately preparing for this very foreseeable eventuality which many of us have been trying to warn about. https://t.co/yho3bhuxOl

— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) February 26, 2021

Deepfakes are a serious problem and our society isn't really for it. This will make misinformation a much bigger problem. https://t.co/sTIEFtlXQi

— Sasha's Glossy Lips (@B2B_Writer) February 26, 2021

This is very weird and disturbing! https://t.co/HhCDkhw0Gp

— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) February 26, 2021

when i tried @sensityai's deepfake detector on still images, it was right every time (i'm told in tests it's about 98% accurate). but the impressive tom cruise deepfakes on tiktok? it couldn't catch any when @JaneLytv ran them through. if that doesn't make you nervous, it should. https://t.co/XPc2fjSxpr

— Rachel Metz (@rachelmetz) February 26, 2021

The "deeptomcruise" TikTok account has 138,000 followers: https://t.co/4GouYLPXXr.

The lack of any ethical rules addressing how this tech gets abused, mostly to harass women, is a huge problem: https://t.co/eAO1x6cIjV / https://t.co/d3rbIb9g5F https://t.co/VBP8e31XeH

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) February 25, 2021

These Tom Cruise deepfakes doing rounds are insane. Imagine this tech used as a counter military strategy, a world leader seen as declaring war, but its a deepfake. Not a question of if, but when... https://t.co/3wH3Yptsu4

— Kabir Taneja (@KabirTaneja) February 27, 2021

If you needed confirmation that deepfakes are no longer Mission: Impossible, check out this one depicting Tom Cruise. #AI

H/T @morgfair https://t.co/3xpHBslhUi

— Ajit Pai (@AjitPai) February 26, 2021

Tbf people have been putting Tom Cruise’s face on to naughty effect since 1996 https://t.co/VDtwCwZqlr

— (((Zoe Williams))) (@zoesqwilliams) February 26, 2021

Good news for sex workers- they can claim everything is a DeepFake.

I think if any decent pornographic ones of me were released I'd use chaff countermeasures and release thousands of low-quality ones via bot to obfuscate plausible ones in search results. https://t.co/6BLEv05SOp

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) February 27, 2021

maybe deepfakes will get so real that photo/video won't mean anything and we'll just have to revert back to seeing things with our own eyes to believe them https://t.co/GvgrmNQpfW

— dan q. dao (@danqdao) February 26, 2021

We are woefully unprepared for this.

AI safety needs to be bumped up our list of priorities.

— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) February 25, 2021

Very good thread here https://t.co/nRJ6fBh81A

— mat honan (@mat) February 26, 2021

Great news for avatar providers like @genies who would be in a position to offer celebrity clients private key custody as a way to authenticate online content? ? https://t.co/hEg0IDCbXj

— Maximilian ? (@fiege_max) February 26, 2021

The Tom Cruise #DeepFakes demonstrate what will become a commonplace technique in which human actors play the part but are skinned to look like someone else.https://t.co/z4IzoYIFmh#AvatarLand #DeepTomCruise

— Chris Messina (@chrismessina) February 27, 2021

Thread “Deepfakes are vastly used for targeted harassment of women.” https://t.co/eLN8vV9zdX

— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) February 26, 2021

This is not Tom Cruise

This is a deep fake

This probably isn't great news for Cameo pic.twitter.com/CqkzNOAFQp

— Damian Burns (@damianburns) February 26, 2021

Deepfakes are getting better https://t.co/nc34UoUM0P

— Jim Edwards (@Jim_Edwards) February 26, 2021

Deep fakes are getting scary good and taking over TikTok. Every public figure should just be on there with a verified account - even if they don’t want to make content - to make it easier to identify their fakes. Here’s Tom Cruise: pic.twitter.com/xoSJt1bvVR

— lauren white (@laurenmwhite) February 25, 2021

How long before we get a TikTok filter that is a deepfake filter that allows anyone to be a specific celebrity? https://t.co/9oIaEUU0P4

— Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) February 26, 2021

Impressive deep fake: the law & society is going to have to catch up to allow people to easily stop these sorts of videos from being made and shared pic.twitter.com/0qL8amGtCN

— Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) February 26, 2021

See this video of Tom Cruise?

Well, it’s not Tom Cruise.

It’s AI generated synthetic media that portrays Tom Cruise onto a TikTok user using Deepfakes.

Seeing is no longer believing. pic.twitter.com/CRix0hD9OH

— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) February 25, 2021

Despite being done with an actor/impersonator one can still tell this is fake but we’re fast approaching the point where most can be fooled, even without a huge budget behind it. https://t.co/WUxlOv25jR

— Marco Salvi (@marcosalvi) February 26, 2021

Those Tom Cruise deepfakes on TikTok are deeply unsettling.

Let's run them through @sensityai's new deepfake detector tool to see how they do ?

— Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) February 26, 2021

Tweeting this just in case I’m right: Those Tom Cruise deepfakes are real Tom Cruise and it’s a publicity stunt for… something. https://t.co/tuz8ezglnG

— James O'Malley (@Psythor) February 26, 2021

Reality has no meaning. https://t.co/ciF3FP66jV

— Stephen Blackmoore (@sblackmoore) February 26, 2021

Tom Cruise instead of Nicholas Cage. Lame https://t.co/rQJGXIyIEG

— Mark O. Riedl (@mark_riedl) February 26, 2021

Have a look at this to convince yourself that the era of video-being-evidence is over.

If your boss tell you to transfer $10m during the video-call, do not.https://t.co/0wrf4HOVxs

— François Fleuret (@francoisfleuret) February 26, 2021

I remember the tens of articles on voice-based social engineering attacks (someone calling pretending to be the CEO asking for an urgent bank transfer, say).

Imagine with video-based social engineering. Especially without a built-in way to verify who’s joining that Zoom meeting. https://t.co/18XoXItUBW

— Luca Dellanna (@DellAnnaLuca) February 26, 2021