1. Unnatural eye movement. Eye movements that do not look natural — or a lack of eye movement, such as an absence of blinking — are huge red flags. It’s challenging to replicate the act of blinking in a way that looks natural. It’s also challenging to replicate a real person’s eye movements. That’s because someone’s eyes usually follow the person they’re talking to.

2. Unnatural facial expressions. When something doesn’t look right about a face, it could signal facial morphing. This occurs when one image has been stitched over another.

3. Awkward facial-feature positioning. If someone’s face is pointing one way and their nose is pointing another way, you should be skeptical about the video’s authenticity.

4. A lack of emotion. You also can spot what is known as ‘facial morphing’ or image stitches if someone’s face doesn’t seem to exhibit the emotion that should go along with what they’re supposedly saying.

5. Awkward-looking body or posture. Another sign is if a person’s body shape doesn’t look natural, or there is awkward or inconsistent positioning of head and body. This may be one of the easier inconsistencies to spot, because deepfake technology usually focuses on facial features rather than the whole body.

6. Unnatural body movement or body shape. If someone looks distorted or off when they turn to the side or move their head, or their movements are jerky and disjointed from one frame to the next, you should suspect the video is fake.

7. Unnatural colouring. Abnormal skin tone, discoloration, weird lighting, and misplaced shadows are all signs that what you’re seeing is likely fake.

8. Hair that doesn’t look real. You won’t see frizzy or flyaway hair. Why? Fake images won’t be able to generate these individual characteristics.

9. Teeth that don’t look real. Algorithms may not be able to generate individual teeth, so an absence of outlines of individual teeth could be a clue.

10. Blurring or misalignment. If the edges of images are blurry or visuals are misalign — for example, where someone’s face and neck meet their body — you’ll know that something is amiss.

11. Inconsistent noise or audio. Deepfake creators usually spend more time on the video images rather than the audio. The result can be poor lip-syncing, robotic- sounding voices, strange word pronunciation, digital background noise, or even the absence of audio.

12. Images that look unnatural when slowed down. If you watch a video on a screen that’s larger than your smartphone or have video-editing software that can slow down a video’s playback, you can zoom in and examine images more closely. Zooming in on lips, for example, will help you see if they’re really talking or if it’s bad lip-syncing.

13. Hashtag discrepancies. There’s a cryptographic algorithm that helps video creators show that their videos are authentic. The algorithm is used to insert hashtags at certain places throughout a video. If the hashtags change, then you should suspect video manipulation.

14. Digital fingerprints. Blockchain technology can also create a digital fingerprint for videos. While not foolproof, this blockchain-based verification can help establish a video’s authenticity. Here’s how it works. When a video is created, the content is registered to a ledger that can’t be changed. This technology can help prove the authenticity of a video.

15. Reverse image searches. A search for an original image, or a reverse image search with the help of a computer, can unearth similar videos online to help determine if an image, audio, or video has been altered in any way. While reverse video search technology is not publicly available yet, investing in a tool like this could be helpful.

 

Tallulah Willis revealed she was ‘dumped’ by her fiancé Dillon Buss last year and shared about her struggles with anorexia, ADHD, and Borderline Personality Disorder in a wide-ranging essay published on Wednesday.

The 29-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore penned the candid piece for Vogue, where she shared that in June of last year, Buss, whom she had gotten engaged to in May 2021, left her.

‘My boyfriend, who was by then my fiancé, dumped me,’ she wrote, adding that the situation caused her family to step in and send her to an in-patient facility, where she was diagnosed with BPD.

‘I was given a new diagnosis: Borderline Personality Disorder, an illness that impairs the ability to regulate emotions and find stability in relationships,’ she explained.

Willis also detailed her struggle with anorexia, which caused her to drop down to just 84 pounds and left her unable to even go for a walk near her home.

Tallulah announced her engagement to Bass in May of 2021. Dillon, who is a filmmaker, was involved with Tallulah for approximately a year before he popped the question to her.

At the time she gushed in her caption: ‘with absolute most certainty,’ presumably referring to the way she agreed to marry Dillon.

Having gotten sober when she was 20 years old, she says that she began restricting food because he was ‘the last vice she got to hold on to’ – and four years ago, she was diagnosed with the eating disorder.

‘For the last four years, I have suffered from anorexia nervosa,’ Tallulah — who recently shared that she has been trolled about her weight — wrote.

‘By the spring of 2022, I weighed about 84 pounds. I was always freezing. I was calling mobile IV teams to come to my house, and I couldn’t walk in my Los Angeles neighborhood because I was afraid of not having a place to sit down and catch my breath,’ she openly shared. 

Willis wrote that her body image battle began when she was just a young girl – recalling a time when, at age 11, she attended an event with her mom Demi and her then-partner Ashton Kutcher, only to face brutal public criticism over her appearance.

After spending ‘two hours’ reading through the vicious comments being posted about her online, Tallulah says she was left ‘with the silent certainty of her own ugliness’, a thought that would continue to sit in the back of her mind for years.

At the age of 25, she was admitted to an in-patient facility in Malibu to undergo treatment for depression and ADHD.

Describing her loved ones’ reaction to her rapid weight loss, Tallulah recalls experiencing an ‘unhealthy deliciousness’ when people would make comments about her changing physique, although she notes that their surprise over her slender figure soon turned to concern when she continued to shed weight.

Now, Tallulah wonders what might have happened had her father — who’s been struggling with aphasia — been ‘his full self’ and realized what was going on with her, saying that she ‘likes to think he wouldn’t have let it happen’.

‘If he had understood, [he] might have scooped me up and said, “This is ending now,”‘ she said.

She then shared that after spending some time at an in-patient facility in Texas, following the end of her engagement, she started doing better.

‘By the time I left Texas, in October, I felt a lot better,’ she said, adding that she knows her recovery will ‘probably be lifelong’ but that she now feels capable of being ‘present’ in every aspect of her life, including her relationship with her father.

‘Most of my clothes are too small now, and in the morning, as I go through my closet, I have to resist the temptation to linger on that and urge myself to move on. Recovery is probably lifelong, but I now have the tools to be present in all facets of my life, and especially in my relationship with my dad.’ 

Elsewhere in the interview she candidly laid bare gut-wrenching new details about Bruce’s ongoing battle with the degenerative brain condition aphasia – revealing in searing detail how she knew ‘a long time ago’ that something was wrong with her father, but that she assumed he had simply ‘lost interest in her’ after the birth of his children with his second wife. 

She recalled witnessing her father’s steady mental decline, admitting that she and her family initially blamed the 68-year-old’s ‘unresponsiveness’ on his ‘Hollywood hearing loss’. 

However, as it grew more severe, she admits that she began to ‘take it personally’, writing: ‘Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally. He had had two babies with my stepmother, Emma Heming Willis, and I thought he’d lost interest in me.

‘Though this couldn’t have been further from the truth, my adolescent brain tortured itself with some faulty math: I’m not beautiful enough for my mother, I’m not interesting enough for my father.’

Bruce’s devastating diagnosis was revealed to the world in early 2022, with his family – including his ex-wife Demi Moore, their children, and his current wife Emma – issuing a joint statement on behalf of the actor, while sharing details about his condition. 

Less than a year after sharing his first aphasia diagnosis, Bruce received another devastating blow when he was told that he has frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – an uncommon type of the disease that causes a deterioration in behavior, personality and language.