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

Deepfake volume rose from 500,000 in 2023 to 8 million in 2025 as realism improvements outpaced detection tools, enabling widespread fraud and misinformation.

Summary by WGN 9
(The Conversation) - Over 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 — especially low-resolution [...]

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

(The Conversation) - Over 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 — especially low-resolution [...]

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WGN 9 broke the news in Chicago, United States on Sunday, December 28, 2025.
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