Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 -- here's what's coming next

Deepfakes Leveled up in 2025—Here’s What’s Coming Next

Fake images, videos, and audio files crossed the “indistinguishable threshold" this year. Where do we go from here?

Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 -- here's what's coming next

Deepfakes became significantly more difficult to spot in 2025, and a University of Buffalo researcher predicts the trend will continue in 2026.

Deepfakes leveled up in 2025 – here’s what’s coming next

AI image and video generators now produce fully lifelike content. AI-generated image by Siwei Lyu using Google Gemini 3Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly used to deceive people. For many everyday scenarios — especiall…