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Coralyn Jewel smiles broadly at the camera, as strands of her jet black hair fly up with the breeze. Her motorcycle jacket shows off her jutting breasts and flat stomach, while four lightning strikes shine brilliantly in the background. Upon first glance, the image appears fairly unremarkable—just another over stylized modeling shoot. Look closer, though, and the cracks begin to show: a black shadow in her cleavage looks like a chasm, her belly button is large and strangely diamond shaped, and her hair is oddly gravity-defying.
The image of Jewel, a human adult performer, is from DeepFake.com—but unlike most deepfakes, it’s an authorized one. Jewel created it herself using the site’s image-generating software that was trained from about 100 images she shared with Steve Lightspeed, founder of DeepFake.com. Initially, she was skeptical of creating deepfakes.
“Part of me is like, ‘Oh my God, that’s so scary,’” she told The Daily Beast. Now she posts some of the images from DeepFake.com to her social media. “People are like, ‘Holy crap, that really does look like you.’”