Two Financial Times journalists demonstrated that anyone can produce a realistic face-swap video in a few steps using entirely free software running on a standard laptop. Created by AI correspondents Melissa Heikkilä and Ellesheva Kissin, the FT film "The rise of deepfakes and how to stop them" shows how dragging and dropping an existing video archive and a single headshot image is enough to swap a face, while tools such as ElevenLabs can overlay a cloned voice. The film is available on the FT's page and on YouTube.
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