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cheap fake

noun

Etymology

Blend of cheap + deepfake.

  1. derived from *fegōn✻ — “to clean up, polish”
  2. derived from fegōn
  3. derived from vēgen
  4. derived from fegen
  5. compounded as deepfake — “deep learning + fake”
  6. compounded as cheap fake — “cheap + deepfake”

Definitions

  1. A real video taken out of context or manipulated with cheap tools.

    • Importantly, deepfakes are perceived as less credible than cheapfakes with a similar de-legitimizing anti-immigration narrative.
    • Creators of cheap fakes use techniques such as slowing or speeding footage, cropping or zooming in on videos, and clipping parts of videos to omit the full context.
    • While deepfakes use AI to create or alter video and audio content, cheap fakes rely on editing and mislabeling media to create a false impression.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheap fake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA