From Laughter to Concern: Exploring Conversations about Deepfakes on Reddit - Trends
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Reddit posts collected via the Pro API reveal that average people detect deepfakes with only 62% accuracy, scams using deepfakes account for 90% of mobile threats in Q1 2024, and nearly 4,000 celebrities appear in synthetic pornography. Analysis uses Gemini LLM for categorization, BERTopic for latent topics, and VADER for sentiment. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the most-mentioned targets, 20 tools are ambiguous while 2 are classified malicious, and a January 2024 Taylor Swift deepfake triggers a clear negative sentiment spike.
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