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5 Dates That Shaped Deepfake History

1997: Video Rewrite was an early academic precursor.

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December 8 to 13, 2014: Goodfellow's GAN paper became a foundational deepfake milestone.

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Late 2017: Reddit's r/deepfakes helped popularize the term deepfake.

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April 2018: the Obama deepfake PSA showed how convincingly synthetic video can mimic a public figure.

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16 March 2022: the Zelenskyy surrender video circulated as an armed-conflict deepfake.

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