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 $72,210 to $194,430 or more in May 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). They had median annual earnings of $126,830.
Machine learning engineers (a category that also includes deepfake professionals) earned average salaries of $113,358 in 2021, accordin...
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 number of deepfake videos online has been increasing at an estimated annual rate of about 900 percent,” according to a 2021 article by John Letzing at the Web site of the World Economic Forum, a nonprofit foundation. The author goes on to say that “technology advances have made it increasingly easy to produce them, which has raised questions about how best to prevent malicious misuse.” As ...