Deepfake
AI-generated synthetic media (video, audio, or images) that convincingly mimics a real person. Used in social engineering attacks where attackers impersonate executives or colleagues via video calls or voice messages, as in the 2024 Arup case.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 5 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Literacy & Professional Conduct.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
AI-generated synthetic media (video, audio, or images) that convincingly mimics a real person. Used in social engineering attacks where attackers impersonate executives or colleagues via video calls or voice messages, as in the 2024 Arup case.
Synthetic audio or video generated to convincingly impersonate a real person's appearance or voice, used in the Arup case (Section 4) to illustrate the human-scale version of T9's identity-spoofing mechanism.
AI-generated synthetic audio, image, or video that convincingly imitates a real person, used in social-engineering attacks such as the 2024 Arup video-call fraud.
Synthetic audio or video created by AI to realistically depict a person saying or doing something they did not. Under the EU AI Act, deepfakes must be disclosed as AI-generated from 2 August 2026.
AI-generated synthetic media (video, image, or audio) that convincingly imitates a real, specific person's appearance or voice, used here in the context of recognizing and defending against its use in fraud.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Online Safety, Privacy, and Data Basics · Digital Foundations, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- Multimodal AI: Text, Image, Audio, Video · AI Fundamentals, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- AI-Specific Threat Detection · AI Security Fundamentals, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- The OWASP Threat Map II · Technical Controls and Threat Modeling, Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Security and Adversarial Threats · Risk, Resilience and Frontier AI, Business AI Transformation
Terms it appears with
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