From breaking to faking the code: Alan Turing’s Imitation Game latest upgrade for discerning Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated deepfakes

Abstract Alan Turing developed a simple test for verifying whether machine or man. He did this with a vision that was decades ahead of the time but with the technology that was available to him at the time. Back in the time, the notion of AI was a future prospect, and not a real threat in any way to humanity. Roll the clock forward to today and AI is not a prospect but a stark reality and the threat to humanity, according to the sceptics, all but real. But how serious has the threat become? This paper investigates.