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As a case study, this technology has been deliberately applied in a caricatured way to a certain category: that of powerful figures in the political sphere who have been involved in cases that have attracted media scrutiny, such as sexual scandal, acts of sexual harassment or illicit relationships. In this case, Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Juan Carlos de Borbón and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are the protagonists of memorable examples of abuse of power and sexist violence encouraged by patriarchal society.
Deepfake media is now capable of a high degree of refinement that disguises the manipulation and makes it indistinguishable. However, in this artwork the artist has opted for grotesque exaggeration and parody, which creates a fiction that does not seek to deceive, but rather to reveal the mechanisms of deception.