The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York has a new exhibition called “Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen.” The exhibit looks at the technology of deepfakes and how they’re used to populate viewers.

Deepfakes are deceptive videos created using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The centerpiece of the exhibit is the video ‘In Event of Mood Disaster’ a six-minute film produced by the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality. It’s set in a 1960s styled living room and the 1969 launch of Apollo 11 is played the program cuts to Richard Nixon saying a line from the never-used address written by speechwriter William Safire in case the Apollo 11 team did not return from their mission. 

 

Original post by Jan Recker/Smithsonian Magazine

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