| Our work seeks to dig deeper into the positive applications of deepfake and further expand its effect on investigating on whether racial cues will influence viewers’ perception of news. This project has two primary goals. First, optimize and solve the problems in the existing deepfake models to make more real-looking and immersive fake videos. The second goal of the project is to leverage the deepfake technique to create “twin videos” of news broadcasts, wherein the faces of the dominant racial groups in the journalism industry will be substituted with those of minority groups. This will facilitate an investigation into the impact of the anchor’s race on the audience’s perception and cognitive processing of the conveyed information. |
