Alongside the rapid growth of AI has been a flood of deepfake videos, which depict people doing and saying things they would never dream of putting on camera. The practice has already created a flood of legal and ethical discussions at the highest levels of courts and government — all while President Trump has posted deepfake videos of his enemies to social media.

Writer-director Chris Marrs Piliero says he was fascinated by deepfake technology when he saw his first example of it in 2018, and has tracked the growing technology from there.

“When I first saw it, I immediately had two thoughts: ‘This is really cool, and this is going to be used nefariously,'” Piliero says. “My third thought was, ‘I want to write a film that uses this somehow.’ I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to do that,

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