Tom Cruise deepfake creator reveals how he made viral TikTok video
showing Tom Cruise practicing his golf swing, doing a magic trick and laughing at his own pratfall now says he did not mean to freak anyone out.“I’d like to show people the technical possibilities of these things. I don’t intend to use it in any way where I would upset people — I just want to show them what’s possible in a few years,” Belgian visual effects artist Christopher Ume told the Guardian of the videos, which employ a Cruise impersonator, Miles Fisher, to pull off the ruse.The series of startlingly lifelike videos — posted on a TikTok page titled “deeptomcruise” — featuring the faux action star emerged last week and have since accumulated millions of views and become a viral sharing sensation.