Deepfake Professionals
Overview
Introduction
Deepfakes are videos, photos, and audio files that have been manipulated by machine-learning (ML)—specifically deep neural networks—to appear to make people say or do things they have not done in real life. They are also known as synthetic media but should not be confused with other types of video or audio edits and manipulation that are created by traditional video or audio editing software. These types of deceptions are often known as cheap fakes. Deepfake professional is a general term for various workers who create deepfakes or ...
Quick Facts
Median Salary
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Earnings
Salaries for computer and information research scientists (a category that includes deepfake professionals) ranged from $81,450 to $233,110 or more in May 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). They had median annual earnings of $145,080. Fifty percent of computer and information research scientists earned between $109,990 and $185,160.
Machine learning engineers (a categ...
Work Environment
Deepfake professionals work in comfortable business offices or remotely from home or other locations. A deepfake worker who is employed by a government agency or in a corporate setting will typically have a standard Monday through Friday, 40-hour workweek. Freelance deepfake professionals and those who operate their own consulting firms have more flexible schedules. For example, they might work...
Outlook
The total number of deepfake videos online increased by 550 percent from 2019 to 2023, according to Security Heros 2023 State of Deepfakes. As a result, there is a strong need for deepfake professionals to develop software and other methods to identify harmful deepfakes and create an authentication process (the use of blockchain technology is one idea) for authentic videos.
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