

'You may not: impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent you or your affiliation with any person or entity, including giving the impression that any content you upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise make available emanates from the Services,' the app's policy reads.

Regardless of what experts and the public think about imposter Cruise, TikTok does have rules against impersonations. 'Deepfakes will impact public trust, provide cover & plausible deniability for criminals/abusers caught on video or audio, and will be (and are) used to manipulate, humiliate, & hurt people,' she said adding they had 'real world safety, political etc impact for everyone,' she tweeted. Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who specializes in the analysis of digital images, told Fortune that although he knew the clips were deepfakes they are still 'incredibly done.'įarid may be alone with that opinion, as Rachel Tobac, the CEO of online security company SocialProof, tweeted that the videos proved we have reached a stage of almost 'undetectable Deepfakes.' Leading expert Henry Ajder told the Times of London: 'This technology is not going away, there is also a huge amount of really negative and malicious use cases.'īut other experts praise the work, as the fake Cruise mirrors the speech, mannerisms and appearance of the real celebrity. The Tom Cruise deepfakes may be giving the world a laugh, but the technology is sparking fear in experts. The other clip shows Cruise walking through a clothing store where he trips, rolls over and jumps back on his feet to tell the TikTok world a joke about the time he met former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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deeptomcruise/TikTok Ume and Fisher had previously worked together on a YouTube web series that imagined a 2020 presidential campaign run by the 58. He runs back to the camera, takes his sunglasses off and says: 'Hey listen up sports and TikTok fans, if you like what you are seeing just wait until what's coming next.' A deepfake video shows Tom Cruise playing golf. Whether or not the New Zealand director takes Ume up on his offer, at least one person in Hollywood appears to have learned something from his and Fisher’s stunt: while Tom Cruise has refused to comment on the videos, the actor now has a verified account on TikTok – although with zero videos posted, and just 20,000 fans, he is apparently less popular than his deepfake counterpart.Tom Cruise goes viral on TikTok with 11 million views but the clips are fake /dVQ1XII5NJ

I’m saying this in every interview: hey, Peter, if you’re reading this, contact me.” I would like to work for Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings. “When I started doing video and working on my projects, just in general, I always had a dream. T hree days ago, a TikTok account going by deeptomcruise began posting video clips of the Hollywood actor Tom Cruise doing everything from golfing, to tripping and telling a joke in what appears. “I just strongly think that there should be laws to help with the responsible use of AI and deepfakes,” Ume says.įor Ume, though, there is one other major hope he has for this whole affair: a single shot at the job of a lifetime. The actor has been deepfaked in videos published on TikTok. I don’t intend to use it in any way where I would upset people – I just want to show them what’s possible in a few years.” What now takes an inventive impersonator, a beefy computer, and a skilled practitioner days of work could be done by a simple Snapchat filter by 2025, he suggests. Tom Cruise attends the 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' US Premiere on Jin Washington, DC. “I’d like to show people the technical possibilities of these things. And Ume cautions it will not be the last time a nearly flawless deepfake appears unannounced. But the clips' creator, VFX specialist Chris. But the DeepTomCruise account is a step further still. Viral deepfakes of Tom Cruise on TikTok have led some to worry about the future of fake video.
