This document discusses deepfakes, which are synthetic media that uses artificial intelligence to replace a person's face or body with someone else's. It describes the origin of deepfakes from a Reddit community in 2017 and how applications now allow users to easily create and share manipulated videos. The document explains that deepfakes work using autoencoders and generative adversarial networks to learn from data and generate new realistic images and videos. It also covers methods for detecting deepfakes and discusses both the potential positive and negative applications of this emerging technology.