Deepfakes Explained — From Vectors to the Decoder Swap (Interactive)

📰 Dev.to · Mathias Leonhardt

How do deepfakes actually work? A step-by-step journey through linear algebra, PCA, the kernel trick, and autoencoders — with 6 interactive visualizations and a real MNIST autoencoder running in your browser.

Published 19 Apr 2026
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