A deepfake skin suit: How a man stole Matt Austin’s face - WKMG

During a cybersecurity conference, a security expert demonstrated the ease with which deepfakes can be created. The demonstration involved cloning a news anchor's face and voice using publicly available videos.

What happened

Perry Carpenter, a Chief Deception Strategist, harvested videos of news anchor Matt Austin from his Instagram account. Using these videos, Carpenter cloned Austin's voice and face. He then generated a new video of "Austin" promoting a meme coin. Carpenter also wore Austin's face in real-time, creating a digital skin suit that could be used in live video calls to impersonate Austin. Carpenter even turned himself and a producer into Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings in real time. Carpenter noted that AI-generated videos can be used as pranks, or even to falsely report crimes.