We've always had AfterEffects and CGI. Some viral videos have been proven fake , but for the most part a lot of those faked videos were low res to make it more

We've always had AfterEffects and CGI. Some viral videos have been proven fake , but for the most part a lot of those faked videos were low res to make it more forgiving to fake them. Captain disillusion on youtube has a great channel covering all of this. Here's an example of a fake lightning video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPRtCW5sRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPRtCW5sRk Deepfakes has made it so the average user, with no knowledge of Aftereffects / composition, to basically run a python script so long as they have high res images + several angles / expressions of the target user. That same folder set of images can be replicated in multiple scenes with just the cost being GPU rendering time Deepfake videos can also have a much higher resolution than "viral videos" with aftereffects to fake effects. Deepfaking also leads to a lot of legality issues as well. TL;DR deepfakes does make faking videos much cheaper, higher resolution, and easier now