More people know Volodymyr Zelensky’s face than ever before as the president leads Ukraine in a fight against a Russian invasion that’s now in its fourth week.
In turn, a headline-grabbing deepfake video recently targeted Zelensky’s high level of visibility, by putting words in his mouth that he never said.
The fake Zelensky video purported to show the president telling Ukrainians to lay down their arms — a false claim that the real Zelensky deemed a “childish provocation” amid a life-and-death war.
Experts say this deepfake fail may not have been particularly convincing, but what’s troubling is how more advanced versions of such deception could wreak havoc in the future.
“We could see more that are much more impressive,
