> the adornment and “deepfake” transformation of the human face, now common on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, was introduced in a startup s

> the adornment and “deepfake” transformation of the human face, now common on social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, was introduced in a startup sold to Google by one of the authors; Uhh excuse me but deepfakes were not introduced at this company. It was a mobile qr and image recognition technology and that is all. I should know because I was the lead tester of this technology at Neven Vision. They must be talking about DeepDream a google project by the company founder many years later.