Adobe Project Morpheus slammed for deepfake uses

A prototype of Adobe AI-powered image editing software raised concerns about its potential misuse in creating life-like deepfake videos.

Project Morpheus was previewed at Adobe MAX Sneaks 2021 and allows users to automate frame-level appearance changes in videos, including altering age, facial expressions, and adding or removing facial hair and glasses.

However, critics expressed concerns about the ease with which life-like deepfake videos could be created to malign, undermine or otherwise damage the interests or reputation of an individual, group or society, or to develop disinformation.

In a promotional video, Project Morpheus software developer Han Gao claimed that Morpheus was an experiment, and may not end up as part of Photoshop or another Adobe product.