{"id":61740,"date":"2025-01-28T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tom-cruise-deepfake-tiktok-goes-viral-with-most-convincing-video-yet-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:23:19","slug":"tom-cruise-deepfake-tiktok-goes-viral-with-most-convincing-video-yet-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tom-cruise-deepfake-tiktok-goes-viral-with-most-convincing-video-yet-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise deepfake TikTok goes viral with most convincing video yet &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise deepfake TikTok goes viral with most convincing video yet TikTok: deeptomcruiseA TikTok account dedicated to deepfake videos of superstar actor Tom Cruise has gone viral once again with another shockingly realistic video. Deepfakes, the digital recreation of people\u2019s faces and speech, have gotten scarily good over the last few years. One TikToker has gone viral tons of times with his deepfake videos of one of the most famous American movie stars of all time, Tom Cruise. Chris Ume, a VFX and A.I. artist, has an entire TikTok dedicated to making fake videos of Tom Cruise. His videos are so realistic that it even tricked Justin Bieber into believing it was actually Cruise himself. Now, the deepfaker has gone viral once again with maybe their most convincing video to date. Tom Cruise deepfake looks shockingly real The account, deeptomcruise, has over 3.4 million followers. In a video posted on April 4, which now has over 10 million viewers, the fake Tom Cruise is at it again, this time with a special guest. Fake-Cruise was joined by comedy actor Keegan Michael-Key at the AFI awards show. The video kicks off with Cruise launching himself over Key and saying, \u201cJust wanted to jump in and wish you luck buddy. Congrats on the AFI awards. Congrats on life, congrats on the look, work on the humor a bit.\u201d Chris Ume, pretending to be the famous actor, belts out a very Cruiseian laugh that is near indistinguishable from the actual Cruise, and also mimicked Tom\u2019s hand genstures. The comment section was filled with users who were in complete shock. One said, \u201cI\u2019m convinced it\u2019s actually Tom Cruise.\u201d Read More: What does ASL mean on TikTok? &#8211; The video caught so much steam it actually got \u201cTom Cruise\u201d trending on Twitter. Some were actually creeped out by the video with one social media user saying, \u201cI don\u2019t like the Tom Cruise deep fakes. Put me in the firmly \u201cagainst deep fakes in general\u201d column.\u201d I don\u2019t like the Tom Cruise deep fakes. Put me in the firmly \u201cagainst deep fakes in general\u201d column \u2014 Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) April 15, 2022 It\u2019s both incredible and scary that deepfake technology has advanced this far that social media users are creating entire accounts pretending to be other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cruise deepfake TikTok goes viral with most convincing video yet TikTok: deeptomcruiseA TikTok account dedicated to deepfake videos of superstar actor Tom Cruise has gone viral once again with another shockingly realistic video. Deepfakes, the digital recreation of people\u2019s faces and speech, have gotten scarily good over the last few years. One TikToker has [&hellip;]<\/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-61740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61740","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=61740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}