Deepfake Technology Development and How It Affects Higher Education

Deepfake technology is a very disruptive technology used to generate convincing fake information, images, video, and audio. This essay examines the creation of deepfakes, the technology's revolution over the past couple of years, and its impact on higher education. Deepfakes in college classrooms pose issues and present possibilities of broad influence on academic integrity, web-based learning contexts, and the application of courses. An analysis of related literature and case studies, as an approach to solving the problem of universities being exploited through deepfakes for propaganda, illegal content creation, and undermining educational credibility, leads to future study implications. This chapter also documents academies' reactions to such new assaults and discusses newly created technologies to be installed for detecting and repairing deepfakes. With the changing technology and ethics, this chapter identifies the paradox of expansion and the need for academic protection. Institutional reports, research journals, and case studies provide the data for this research.

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