Artificial Intelligence and New Level of Fake News

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to increase the awareness toward contents in the internet, like fake news or hoaxes. It focuses on internet contents made with artificial intelligence or AI. The method of this study used qualitative methods. The method is used to describe the people's readiness toward fake news made with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). Besides, questionnaire is used to understand people awareness toward fake news. As the study focuses on one the AI technologies, Deepfake is taken for the research subject. The result shows that videos made with Deepfake are hard to tell if they were fake. Other than that, access to software implementing Deepfake is pretty easy to get; the example is faceswap, an open source project that is available and easy to use. Deepfake is useful in the film making industries, but recently it gets to the surfaces and is used to make fake news.