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Tom CruiseAn American actor who often does action movies. He is most famous for starring in the Mission Impossible films as Ethan Hunt. is an actor. He is known for starring in Mission Impossible. Now, he has gone viral on TikTok.

In videos, he tells funny stories, tastes sweets and does magic tricks. In one, he even plays golf. The films have been seen by millions. But there is one problem: they are not really him.

In fact, the videos are deepfakes. This means they were created using artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence, or "AI," is the ability for a computer to think and learn. With AI, computers can perform tasks that are typically done by people, including processing language, problem-solving, and learning..

The computer learned what Tom Cruise looked and sounded like. Then, it made a video of him saying and doing things he had never done himself.

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But it is not easy to make them look realistic. "You can't do it by just pressing a button," said the owner of the TikTok account, Chris Ume. He is a computer expert. He made the videos with the help of an impersonatorSomebody who pretends to be somebody else. Miles Fisher makes his living by doing very realistic impressions of Tom Cruise. The videos were made using films of him acting..

He made the account just for fun: "We made people smile. And that's it, the project is done."

But some say deepfakes are dangerous. They are so realistic, it could soon be difficult to tell if what we see online is real.

No. They should be banned altogether. Deepfakes are misleadingGiving the wrong idea. and wrong. They could be very harmful. People could be made to say things they do not believe.

Yes! It's the perfect solution. Deepfakes are only dangerous if we believe them. If each one had a label explaining what it is, nobody would get confused. That way, everyone could have fun with the technology.