A deep fake is an edited photo or video that cannot be differentiated from the original.

It’s been easy to fake photos for some time. Basically, every image you see in a magazine of a sexy female is fake, edited to the point where it bears little resemblance to the real original photo.

But video fakes have been easier to detect. Until now, you needed expensive software and Hollywood budgets to really manipulate footage. But now requests are done online by amateurs.

What kind of requests? Usually putting someone’s head on a porn star’s body to imagine you are watching whoever the face came from.

Of course, the applications of any emerging technology will be used for sex if it can–just look how quickly pornography proliferated on the internet.

But imagine all the other nefarious uses for this type of fake.