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A screenshot of a deepfake clip purportedly showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy telling his soldiers to surrender.
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Kenny Chee
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SINGAPORE - It might be easy to laugh off last year's deepfake TikTok videos of an impersonator, whose face was swopped with actor Tom Cruise's, doing things such as speaking Japanese and acting cute.
With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), he looked almost indistinguishable from the real star, and many people were initially fooled.

