Deepfake

With troublingly realistic fake videos now being generated by AI, how do we tell truth from falsehood, reality from illusion? Deepfake explores the dawning phenomenon of undetectable deepfakes. The series confronts a crucial question: when you can’t believe your eyes and ears, who – or what – can you trust?

Twenty-five-year-old Stephanie’s life is overturned when a compromising video of her mother goes viral. Stephanie believes the video, which wrecked her mother’s political career and hurt her influential family, is a fake – despite expert consensus that it’s genuine. But who created the fake, and why? Though it goes against everything in her character, Stephanie gets hired under a false identity by a start-up that she suspects of having the tech know-how to create undetectable deepfakes. Drawn into a dangerous conspiracy with international repercussions, Stephanie discovers that the truth isn’t what she thought, and that perfect lies come at a high price.