That viral 'smudged lip gloss' video got me good for 20 minutes

Last Tuesday I saw this clip of a makeup artist blending lip gloss with her finger and it looked so smooth and natural, I almost shared it before I noticed her finger literally warped through her chin on the third pass. What gave it away was the lighting on her cheek never changing even when she turned her head. Has anyone else been fooled by a beauty tutorial that turned out to be deep faked?

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morgan.jason6d agoMost Upvoted

People are way too quick" - honestly is it that big of a deal either way?

hannah_west396d ago

Hold up, I'm gonna push back on this one. Honestly I think people are way too quick to call everything a deep fake these days. That clip went viral because it was probably just a really good makeup artist who knows how to work with lighting and angles, not some conspiracy. I've seen real tutorials that look way more polished than anything I could do in my own bathroom, and that doesn't mean they're fake. The whole "finger warping" thing could easily be a weird camera artifact or a compression glitch from uploading, not some AI trick. Plus if someone actually spent the time and money to deep fake a lip gloss video, they'd probably put that effort into something way more dramatic than a five second blending clip. I feel like we're losing the ability to just appreciate good skill and calling everything suspicious instead.

olivia_white937d ago

That clip had me going too for a minute. Saw it on my feed and almost sent it to my sister before I caught the chin thing you mentioned. The lighting thing is what gets me with these deep fakes now, they're good enough to fool you if you're not looking close. Makes you wonder how many other tutorials out there are completely fake and we just never notice.