People remember non-existent movie remakes after seeing deepfakes
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Deepfakes that put an actor in movies they never starred in are convincing enough to create false memories of Hollywood movie remakes that never existed. But researchers also found that deepfakes don’t have a uniquely powerful impact on people’s minds compared to the humble written word.
“We’ve done a number of projects to determine how much worse deepfakes are than anything else in terms of memory and misinformation,” says Gillian Murphy at University College Cork in Ireland. “And were…