A Twitter user took to the micro-blogging site on Tuesday to share a video of former President of the Indian National Congress Rahul Gandhi as a Hollywood star and it left netizens in splits. In the hilarious clip, the user has managed to edit Gandhi's face into some of the most iconic scenes of popular Hollywood movies like 'Spiderman', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'Avengers: Infinity War' and more. As if the 38-second long clip wasn't' enough, the user went ahead and posted another one where he edited the political leader as Alia Bhatt from Varun Dhawan starrer 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya'. The videos were made by using the editing app Reface, revealed the user.
Check out the videos here:
Another person in the comments section revealed, "These are called as deepfakes. In deep fakes, the training model captures the actor face, studies the movements, and reconfigures it to a new face, RG as in above example."
He added, "Deep fakes can be a threat as it can be used to show fake testimonials."
Here's how Twitter reacted:
