In July of last year, I'd written, "Once both video and audio fabrications can be automated, the ability to do so will then likely be open-sourced, allowing anyone with access to a laptop to create similar content." Fast forward 6 months and that future has now arrived.

Created by a Reddit user known as deepfakes, a downloadable neural network, FakeApp, was unleashed online last year, allowing anyone to near-perfectly splice images of people onto any clip or image they desire. Naturally, this story blew up thanks to the inordinate number of deepfake porno clips being uploaded on Reddit which depict the faces of popular celebrities. If you thought the 2014 iCloud nude celebrity leaks - aka #TheFappening - were bad, this is 100x worse.

And just when you're about to lose hope for humanity, one Reddit user, who requested to be referred to as "derpfakes," comes to the rescue with something truly incredible. Using the deepfake app, rather than try to splice another celebrity's face onto a porn clip, this user decided to do some touch-up work on the Star Wars standalone film Rogue One.