Robert Pattinson responds to \u201cbizarre\u201d viral deepfake of himself TikTok: unreal_robertActor Robert Pattinson has responded to a \u201cbizarre\u201d deepfake of himself that went massively viral on TikTok, revealing that even people who know him quite well were fooled by the videos. Deepfakes, synthetic media where a person\u2019s likeness can be placed in an existing image, have baffled users on TikTok on a number of different accounts. A number of deepfake accounts have popped up on the app, in which people digitally alter themselves to pretty convincingly become someone else, such as the \u2018Deep Tom Cruise\u2019 account which has over five million followers on the app. Batman actor Robert Pattinson has also been subject to this trend, with TikTok account \u2018unreal_robert\u2019 creating a number of videos featuring a deepfake of the actor which have gone viral on many occasions. In an interview with ES Magazine, Pattinson shared his thoughts on the bizarrely accurate deepfake videos, and revealed that even people who know him were fooled by them. \u201cI know, it\u2019s terrifying,\u2019 he said. \u201cThe amount of people who know me quite well and will still be like, \u2018Why are you doing these weird dancing videos on TikTok?’\u201d He went on to say: \u201cIt\u2019s really bizarre. You just realize that we\u2019re two years away from it being indistinguishable from reality \u2014 and what on Earth am I going to do as a job then?\u201d The unreal_robert account has over a million followers, with their most viewed video receiving over 33 million views. The comment sections across these videos are filled with viewers who still can\u2019t quite wrap their heads around the fact that it isn\u2019t really Robert, and it\u2019s safe to say a few people were fooled when it initially popped up on their For You Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Robert Pattinson responds to \u201cbizarre\u201d viral deepfake of himself TikTok: unreal_robertActor Robert Pattinson has responded to a \u201cbizarre\u201d deepfake of himself that went massively viral on TikTok, revealing that even people who know him quite well were fooled by the videos. Deepfakes, synthetic media where a person\u2019s likeness can be placed in an existing image, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}