The Internet Buzzes Over Realistic Deepfake Featuring Keanu Reeves, Garnering 16 Million Views
A new deepfake of Keanu Reeves is going viral online. This time, enthusiasts have taken his character — hitman John Wick — and seamlessly inserted him into a popular scene from the second season of Severance.
The video has gained the most traction on the social media platform X, where one post amassed 16 million views. The AI tool Hunyuan Video transferred Keanu Reeves’ likeness with near-perfect accuracy, preserving the facial expressions of the original actor, Adam Scott.
this is unbelievable..
— el.cine (@EHuanglu) January 18, 2025
Hunyuan AI’s video-to-video model can now replace actors in any film scene, and capture even the subtle expressions..
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Social media is flooded with hundreds of comments, not all of them positive. While many are impressed by the technology, others express concern over the rapid advancements in AI and speculate on how it might reshape the film industry.
great, let’s fix the lord of the rings that amazon ruined
— martin (@martin_0x029A) January 18, 2025
We’re not going to have movie stars soon. Just AI characters.
— The Italian Texan Stallion (@GMErectheus) January 20, 2025
crazy how less than 10 years ago it took hundreds of people and months to get paul walker face swap scene in furious 7 and now you can do it a lot better in like 2 mins
— Tahsin Amio (@TahsinAmio) January 18, 2025
wow ai that doesn't look like crap! the future is now!
— Waffy ᯅ
️Me in 2028 because someone made a video of me committing a crime with that AI pic.twitter.com/VCF64l4yOM
— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) January 19, 2025
The second season of Severance premiered on January 17. You can read our impressions of the first episode here.
