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TikTok flooded with deepfake copies of real creators' videos

Rob Beschizza
Jul 11, 2025
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NPR compiled uncanny examples of the copies

If you post a video to TikTok and it gets big, it risks being replicated to the word by AI copies. By deepfaking a new head and voice, the AI spambots avoid automated enforcement. Those being cloned say TikTok doesn't respond to complaints.

The speaker's image and voice appear to have been created with artificia…

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