1997: Video Rewrite was an early academic precursor.
December 8 to 13, 2014: Goodfellow's GAN paper became a foundational deepfake milestone.
Late 2017: Reddit's r/deepfakes helped popularize the term deepfake.
April 2018: the Obama deepfake PSA showed how convincingly synthetic video can mimic a public figure.
16 March 2022: the Zelenskyy surrender video circulated as an armed-conflict deepfake.
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