Published 17:46 IST, February 23rd 2020

Deepfake video of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos goes viral, netizens call it 'gold'

Deepfake video featuring tech billionaires, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is doing rounds of the internet. The video which was shared by YouTube channel The Faking.

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Deepfake video featuring tech billionaires, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is doing rounds of internet. video which was shared by YouTube channel Faking on video streaming platform has received nearly four thousand likes till w. video features both Bezos and Musk in pilot episode of original Star Trek series Pilot.  

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Techlogy and human captivity

video shows Bezos imposed on a body of one of bulbous-headed alien race Talosians while Musk plays human captain Pike. two are n seen talking about techlogy and human captivity. Amazon CEO previously made a cameo appearance in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond as big-headed alien. Watch video here:

 

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video was posted along with a caption that read, "In t too distant future Elon Musk will save us from captivity of Jeff Bezos' Amazon illusion." Soon after it's release, it garnered all sorts of comments from netizens. Many users lauded skills of creators while ors wondered if Mark Zuckerberg would have made a better alien. One user wrote, " future is weird, y won't kw what was original version anymore, it'll be just an endless sea of very credible copies and alternatives" while ar wrote, "Should have gotten Mark Zuckerberg for alien. He has whole... orworldly look down easy."  Read what people had to say: 

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Deepfakes are syntic media in which a person in an existing im or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. While act of faking content is t new, deepfakes lever powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to manipulate or generate visual and audio content with a high potential to deceive. main machine learning methods used to create deepfakes are based on deep learning and involve training generative neural network architectures, such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks (GANs).

17:46 IST, February 23rd 2020