It’s Thursday. It’s hard to imagine anyone else starring as Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” but with a little deepfake technology, even a comedic actor like Jim Carrey can do it.

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Deepfake (a portmanteau of “deep learning” and “fake”) is a technique for human image synthesis based on artificial intelligence. It is used to combine and superimpose existing images and videos onto source images or videos using a machine learning technique known as generative adversarial network.