From Full Fact
No, Donald Trump hasn’t called for Skittles to be banned
By Jess Hacker
A video shared on Facebook which appears to show US President Donald Trump warning people not to eat Skittles is a deepfake. The video also makes a number of inaccurate or misleading claims.
Professor Hany Farid, an expert in digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, told Full Fact: “This is a not very good deepfake of Trump.
“After separating the music track from the voice track, I analysed this audio with models trained to distinguish natural from AI-generated voices. These models confidently classify the voice in this video as AI-generated. In addition, the voice has tell-tale signs of AI-generation in terms of cadence and intonation...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
