How a woman discovered deepfakes of herself NBC4 Washington [Video]

When Amanda Aguilar saw a video of what appeared to be her speaking, she was stunned. It looked just like her – but it wasn’t. The video was a deepfake.

Aguilar learned a scammer took a real video she posted to Instagram and then used artificial intelligence to create a fake video in hopes of catfishing someone. Compared side by side Only on 4, the videos are eerily similar.

“For someone to go out of their way and make a deepfake of me is just like, what? I knew deep fakes were a thing, I just never thought I’d be a victim of one,” said Aguilar, who went to graduate school in D.C., interned at News4 and went on to work in TV news in California.

Aguilar’s friends told her a few weeks ago someone had made a Facebook page posing as her, using her real Instagram photos. The scammer …