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DEEPFAKE
Definition of DEEPFAKE
noun
A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Blend of deep learning + fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, DEEPFAKE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DEEPFAKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 176, 12 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 176, 12 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DEEPFAKE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEEEFKP - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found DEEPFAKE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 176 - and most players walked straight past it.
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