As AI models have improved, so has the ability to make realistic videos of a person or character speaking. These generated videos are known as deep fakes and have been a source of controversy and excitement in generative AI and creative fields.
Today anyone can create a realistic deep fake video with tools like Yapper. In this article, we explain the ethical and moral considerations to take when making deep fake content and highlight several ethical and creative uses for deep fakes.
Nothing in this blog post is legal advice. Rather, it’s a good-faith guideline on how you can make the most of this exciting new technology while respecting ethical and moral boundaries. We ask all users to understand their local regulations before sharing AI generated content that they make with Yapper.
One of the most popular ways to make ethical deep fake content is videos for personal entertainment such as roasts and personalized messages for your friends and family. AI deep fakes let you turn inside jokes into Hollywood-grade videos in seconds.
Personalized Roasts
The most common kinds of deep fake videos made are for personal entertainment and satirical use. In other words, making fun of your friends. Choose a character, tell them what to say, and let the AI deep fake models generate your video. Part of the humor of these style of personalized roast videos is the shock value of having a well known figure like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or Bernie Sanders make fun of you for very personal reasons.
Personalized deep fake roasts mix reality with the absurd, making a hilarious video to send to your friends or share a group chat.
In case you’re not sure what to say, Yapper has a built-in writing assistant that will turn your personal stories about your friend into a funny custom script. Tell it about your friend and it will come up with something funny and jarring to say to them!
Celebration Messages
In a pinch for a memorable and hilarious gift? Pick from the hundreds of characters available or upload your own to have the perfect speaker for your occasion. You can upload video files, YouTube links, or even static pictures to turn into your main character.
It’s a lighthearted way to congratulate those you care about, and turn inside jokes into a Hollywood-grade video.
Birthday and holiday deep fake videos are popular on Yapper. It’s the perfect gift to drop in your family or friend group chat on the big day.
Education
Make educational content more engaging by adding the wow factor of a familiar face! Educators are making deep fake videos of pop culture icons like Lebron James and Taylor Swift to deliver their lessons to a gen-z and gen-alpha audience.
There are even dozens of educational accounts on Instagram and TikTok that get millions of views delivering short, high-quality lessons on STEM, personal finance, SAT prep, and AP and A-levels courses via deep fakes.
Deep fakes are generally allowed for non-commercial educational use. This is why tech-forward educators are using tools like Yapper to make engaging and memorable videos for their students. It’s still important to disclaim that the videos are AI generated.
You can select from a library of popular videos on Yapper, put in your lesson script, or even use our AI writing assistant to help you write a lesson script in the style of your deep fake character.
Deep fakes are a fun and powerful tool for educators to make lessons engaging and relatable to a gen-alpha audience.
AI Influencer Marketing & UGC
Deep fakes are a powerful new tool for digital marketers and business owners. Yapper’s image to deep fake feature allows marketers to select copyright-free AI influencers from our library or upload their own and have them promote their product.
Gone are the days of having to recruit UGC creators, manage deadlines, and stay within budget constraints. Savvy business owners are now using shockingly realistic looking AI avatars to create more promotional organic content for less.
Paired with a video editing tool like CapCut or Adobe Premiere, Yapper gives marketers and business owners unprecedented leverage over their marketing output.
Want to try a slightly different hook, outfit, or location? Simply tweak the script and upload a new base photo. It’s never been easier for business owners to scale their UGC video content at scale with AI.
AI Actors, Narrators, Presenters
Deep fakes provide a scalable, customizable, and affordable alternative to hiring expensive actors for video content. Whether it’s a business-casual actor to narrate an important business presentation like a sales pitch or employee training, or an AI actor used in Facebook Ads, deep fakes can be extremely effective.
Use Yapper’s image to video feature to make realistic AI actors speak. Select from a rich library of copyright free AI avatars or upload your own custom image. No complicated model training required. Just find the image you want to animate, put it into Yapper, and add your script.
Use tools like remove background to overlay your actor on your content for a green-screen effect.
Yapper’s image to video deep fake feature works with any picture with a mouth. That means you can use animated styles like cartoons and anime, or even use pictures of aliens, elves, and other mythical creatures. The only limit to what you can make with deep fake content is your imagination. Yapper gives you full creative control of making ethical deep fake videos for personal, creative, and business use.
Political Satire
Political satire has long been protected as freedom of speech under the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. This means that US users can ethically and safely create deep fakes of political figures for clearly satirical purposes. So long as content is adequately disclosed as AI generated and satire, political satire videos are an ethical, popular, and hilarious use case for deep fakes.
Yapper has the largest library of high quality politician videos to choose from. Some of our most popular videos are US politicians like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, JD Vance, AOC, and Barack Obama. Simply pick a source video, add your script, and generate a realistic deep fake with automatic voice cloning and lip synching.
In creating ethical deep fake content, it’s important to disclose that your content is AI generated and that you check your local regulations for any further requirements. Yapper makes it easy to add a watermark to your videos (if you so choose) so that people will know it’s AI generated for entertainment purposes.
Trump is the most popular video on Yapper. Check out some silly user creations:
Artistic Content
AI deep fakes have become a new tool in the digital artist’s toolbox. Well-known digital animators like Tyler Bernable use Yapper to inject deep fake personalities into their art.
Deep fake technology gives artists like Tyler a powerful new tool to bring imaginative worlds to life on the screen. When combined with other AI tools like text to image, text to video, and image to video, digital artists can use deep fakes to create jaw-dropping works of art.
When it comes to making ethical deep fake content for artist use, the only limit is your imagination. Upload any base video that you want to deep fake to Yapper or even upload a static image.
It’s common for artists to upload AI generated images they’ve spent time crafting in order to make them speak in a life-like way with Yapper.
Here are a few of our favorite examples of using deep fakes for artistic content:
Yapper is the best place to make safe, ethical deep fake videos online. We provide the latest state of the art AI video, voice cloning, and lip synching tools in an easy to understand platform, giving you full creative control.
We are committed to helping users make safe, ethical, and meaningful deep fake content that is productive and not harmful to others. Whatever your use case, it’s important to consider how your content affects others and how they will perceive it. Deep fake technology is powerful, and with great power comes great responsibility. Have fun, let your imagination run wild, but always create responsibly. Yapper makes it easy to create deep fake content responsibly.