deepfake

some discussion of ctrl-shift-fake's work on the shining thread but his newest video (and the furthering/public access to the tech) suggest a dedicated thread's time has come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeRITLly_Kc

The Stallone Terminator 2 one was pretty inspired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AWhh6MYCg

also a good thread to discuss how this is going to destroy the world

deep fakes are the perfect weapon, soon anyone can claim something was deep faked and anyone can claim they are being deep faked.

why didn't he just leave the audio alone, the terrible dubbed in lines are an awful distraction

Technology to counter deepfakes is already pretty far along

nobody will be fooled by deepfakes, they'll just be used as justification

In case you haven't heard, #ZAO is a Chinese app which completely blew up since Friday. Best application of 'Deepfake'-style AI facial replacement I've ever seen.

Here's an example of me as DiCaprio (generated in under 8 secs from that one photo in the thumbnail) 🤯 pic.twitter.com/1RpnJJ3wgT

— Allan Xia (@AllanXia) September 1, 2019

online dating is over

silver linings

nobody will be fooled by deepfakes, they'll just be used as justification

― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 1 September 2019 22:39 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Not sure about the first part. Over time it will get harder and harder to trust visual evidence of anything you didn't witness firsthand, and people will find new ways to cope or they won't. Deepfakes don't need to fool people 100%, they just need to be good enough so that someone can stand up and say it's real and some real footage is fake.

The more garbage is in the data stream, the more the entire contents of the stream becomes unusable for anything.

...

The more garbage is in the data stream, the more the entire contents of the stream becomes unusable for anything.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, September 2, 2019 11:31 AM bookmarkflaglink

Are these Rush lyrics

Deepfakes don't need to fool people 100%, they just need to be good enough so that someone can stand up and say it's real and some real footage is fake.
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Monday, September 2, 2019 5:01 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean that's kind of what i'm saying, consensus reality is already eroded. their real utility doesn't come from 'tricking' people but to give partisans or bad actors permission to do or say what they were going to anyway

the only solution is Veritt

Veritt.com authentication code: 4824702

The more garbage is in the data stream, the more the entire contents of the stream becomes unusable for anything.

A better William Gibson novel than that "what if Hillary won" thing he's working on.

The CEO of an energy firm based in the UK thought he was following his boss’s urgent orders in March when he transferred funds to a third-party. But the request actually came from the AI-assisted voice of a fraudster.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the mark believed he was speaking to the CEO of his businesses’ parent company based in Germany. The German-accented caller told him to send €220,000 ($243,000 USD) to a Hungarian supplier within the hour. The firm’s insurance company, Euler Hermes Group SA, shared information about the crime with WSJ but would not reveal the name of the targeted businesses.

Euler Hermes fraud expert Rüdiger Kirsch told WSJ that the victim recognized his superior’s voice because it had a hint of a German accent and the same “melody.” This was reportedly the first time Euler Hermes has dealt with clients being affected by crimes that used AI mimicry.

https://gizmodo.com/scammer-successfully-deepfaked-ceos-voice-to-fool-under-1837835066?rev=1567523821549&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter

Wait, does this mean I can use deepfake technology to finally realize my dream of performing Henry V entirely in Bane-voice?

aw yeah tedtalk y'all
https://www.ted.com/talks/danielle_citron_how_deepfakes_undermine_truth_and_threaten_democracy

https://deeptracelabs.com/mapping-the-deepfake-landscape/

Our research revealed that the deepfake phenomenon is growing rapidly online, with the number of deepfake videos almost doubling over the last seven months to 14,678. This increase is supported by the growing commodification of tools and services that lower the barrier for non-experts to create deepfakes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we observed a significant contribution to the creation and use of synthetic media tools from web users in China and South Korea, despite the totality of our sources coming from the English-speaking Internet. Another key trend we identified is the prominence of non-consensual deepfake pornography, which accounted for 96% of the total deepfake videos online.

Seems to be a rule that every new trend on the web starts with porn.

not true! there was... um... no, well... okay you may have a point.

Another key trend we identified is the prominence of non-consensual deepfake pornography, which accounted for 96% of the total deepfake videos online

shocked it's not higher than 96% tbh

the future is consensual deepfake pornography where people license their perfect bodies out for sex tapes with less attractive people's faces deepfaked onto them
Your Million Dollar Idea for Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPKeUXjEvE&feature=youtu.be

i was surprised there are relatively few of these videos around so far--they said like 14,000. i guess they're still hard enough to make.

what in the

https://imgur.com/gallery/90y488u

dear god

The future is going to be a hellscape

Lmfao

the present is already a hellscape so I don't know why you'd think the future would be any better

this is dumb but surprising how convincing shit is with minimal effort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6Tumd8EQI

I hope the video looks more convincing than that screengrab

Err... convincing ?

The voices and faces look accurate. The gestures are really off. With some better acting and costume design this technology could be used to make a really convincing fake—and it has like jordan peele’s obama.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/26ufoP9G2W0eOOhVu/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611389b0e46e8b3e1ea1b422ff0245be87140e00f6d&rid=giphy.gif

Damn it !
https://i.imgur.com/mo3Sxcg.jpg

emphasis perhaps less on "convincing" and "how convincing"
goalposts have shifted where absolute minimal effort makes something that might pass on first glance for a layperson

weird here in that i don't see bowie but i also really don't see rannels either... and if i didn't know it was a deepfake i don't think i'd notice the digital manipulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjwOxPKJpaQ

in much scarier news
https://analysis.leadstories.com/3471185-fake-faces-people-Who-Do-Not-Exist-Invade-Facebook-To-Influence-2020-Elections.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aau8qa3xgFs

how did they do the fake keanu voice, wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bioP_2e_xls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OJnkJqkyio

weird seeing young fox's voice coming out of holland's face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUfJOQKdtAk

mother of god

awfully impressive; weird skull rippling tho.

!!!

every ilxor would benefit from watching at least the first minute or two of that youtube. just so you know what's coming down the pike at us and how fast it is arriving. one photo is now all that is needed as a source for making a pretty darn good deepfake animation.

keep in mind that the same is quickly becoming true with the audio side of things (one short vocal sample can be used to generate whatever you want that voice to say)

check, please

Holy shit. Terrorism, school shootings, economic depression, pandemic, wars ... deep fakes are going to be the death of us, and I'm not even kidding. I don't know how they'd enforce it, but that shit should be illegal, like cloning or testing medicine on unsuspecting patients.

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this is what Crichton's Red Dawn was about

it was also dumb

In Margaret Atwood's _Oryx and Crake_ you could pretty readily dial up pr0n of Abraham Lincoln and Anne Frank (forget the actual examples but it was similarly OTT).

That stuff seems inevitable. But given the general ... gullibility of everyone, what's going to happen when there is a perfect deep fake of, say, the dumb asshole president saying something totally dangerous and horrible and yet still totally in character?

You mean that thing that was elected president is not a walking talking deepfake?

Okay MAYBE he whips off the mask in October and it was a long-form Andy Kaufman joek all along.

Ha! Gotcha!

I'm trying (not that hard) to even imagine what a convincing Fake Trump would have to say for me to think, wait a minute, this can't be real, can it?

"I'm sorry"

Seriously.

"I was wrong"

"President Obama had the right idea."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfLfOXPc1c

If I were some deep-thinking futurist type out to make a buck I'd write a solemn book about how the invention of photography, sound recording, radio, motion pictures and television represented the First Mediated Reality Revolution (nb: the capital letters are a requirement in such books), where for the first time humans could experience reality remotely and extend their senses to any part of the world. I'd blather on a bit about the wonder of all this (nb: it really was wonderous to those who lived through it). The upshot of the book would be that You Can't Trust the Media or Even Trust Your Own Eyes and Ears Any More.

But, absent such a bloviating book, all I can say is that we are definitely entering a new stage in fakery that is going to have widespread political and psychological repercussions. Thank goodness for Real Reality (tm) or we'd all go mad.

imo the danger isn't so much that people will believe lies - you don't need deepfakes to disseminate lies - it's that they won't believe the truth

^^that's already happening

people like my mom already tell me that they don't believe anything anymore. she told me last night, literally, that "we only trust our gut now"

granted, she and my dad are 2 of the dumbest people i have ever met, and i say that as an insult to myself, knowing that i inherited their bottomless stupidity

just remember the mantra: I'm dumb as hell, I accept it, and I will never learn

i don't think it's an intelligence issue. many forces in american society, over many decades, have taught people to feel this way--alone, suspicious of their neighbor, just atomized consumers.

trenchant

granted, she and my dad are 2 of the dumbest people i have ever met, and i say that as an insult to myself, knowing that i inherited their bottomless stupidity

it's true though. we can all yet "trump voters" but they didn't spring up out of the ground like that

or whatever

my new theory: andy borowitz is a deepfake

I feel like a neural net could do better than that.

we only trust our gut now

So, a tube of bacteria and poop? okay

That's a fairly reductive way to refer to our president, however accurate it may be.

karl fwiw u are the smartest dumb guy i know
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara),

i would say thank you, but gotta keep eating this mud at the bottom of the ocean. *Scoooooooooooooooop, Scoooooooo*

via Hoos, "thanks I hate it"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist-idUSKCN24G15E

This single image source deepfakery is getting terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d6coarzPsQ

why would you share this

Last year, deepfakery that climbed the uncanny valley required tons of source material, generally tens of thousands stills across multiple videos, that were matched to existing material of a real person, and then color matched for ambient light and fringed into the edges of the face. But when a single mug shot can be manipulated to come pretty close to convincing, its steps further from "movie actors and widely watched politicians can be manipulated in video", into "anyone who presents a single photo of themselves online or just to acquaintances, or from high quality surveilance can be manipulated in video". It just brings home awful potential that anyone whose ever had a mugshot, or posted pictures of themselves online, is providing a character actor that can be relatively easily manipulated, and this tech is going to progress and get better and we won't be able to trust anything again...

this tech is going to progress and get better and we won't be able to trust anything again...

it will progress and get better, and yet we will adapt and still be able to trust people. when people started sending handwritten letters to each other, there were probably concerns about forgeries and how to figure out who actually wrote the letter (partially solved by a liquid seal). i don't know what the equivalent is for deepfakes, but we will muddle on as always.

pretty sure you could have made that point without actually linking that particular incredibly creepy and not funny video my man xp

a terrifying future where we wont be able to trust the internet

Yeah I’m unconvinced deepfakes are a substantial step worse than photoshop

what does “block poster” do on zing?

what you want it to

It will just mark a resurrection of the "I can tell by the pixels" argument.

and they'll know by our pixels
we are fake

i can tell by your pixels that you've prob'ly been faking forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

I'm pretty stupid and for the first minute I thought Fred Sassy was just some old John Michael Higgins/Rip Taylor lookin rando

also, used to work with a lady who named her dog Sassy

also, my friend's mom named her shih tzus Chardonnay and Cherokee, but I always want to call Cherokee Cheyenne for some reason

also, fuck the noncentral geographic locations of state capitals Cheyenne, Sacramento, Carson City, and Tallahassee

also, vagina poop

Whut

you gotta watch the embedded youtube video before you comment hombre! that's how these internet message boards work these days

I had a beagle named Sassy. She lived up to her name.

okay the kushner
Serafinowicz and Trey Stone, eh? Surprised it hasn't blown up yet.

it'll never blow up cause 1) no cute cartoon characters 2) City Wok guy = CANCELLED

i honestly wish that were so

2018: Deepfakes could seriously destabilise global politics in the coming years and we should be alert to the dangers of disinformation spreading at a faster rate than ever before.

2021: …

pic.twitter.com/JLl8NgoQrA

— Pete Fraser (@petefrasermusic) January 15, 2021

It's still pretty fakey. The mouth movements don't synch at all and are the vaguest kind of open-and-closings, the bodily motions aren't quite human, and the anatomy is weird. But if you're just giving it a barely-engaged glance, it's not glaringly bad. The song is entertaining, which helps.

A friend of mine posted something the other day about the inevitable and rapidly approaching need for some sort of independent verification certification or the like for images and videos.

surely some startup is getting funding for that as we speak, contracts on the way

aimless i gather you're unfamiliar with the SEA SHANTY MANIA sweeping the web

Crichton's Rising Sun predicted the widespread use of this technology, as did an episode of the television series version of Weird Science

Not to be confused with Misfits of Science.

guy on the right has some powerful style

you are correct. I know not this mania. but I predict it won't last. because there aren't enough really good ones and eventually they all sound the same.

https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/chanteysing/

adobe is working on a standard certification for photos, dunno if it’ll take off

what about a standard certification for sea shanties?

you laugh, but

The leisure songs associated with sailors are labeled simply as "sea songs," but they have no consistent formal characteristics. They are also popularly known among enthusiasts, especially when distinguishing them from shanties, as fo'c's'le songs or forebitters.

I’m just watching it from my phone bu it looks like a GTA cut scene or something.. agree w/aimless though, it’s a good tune.

i don't think it will stick around past the month but there's a TON of thought pieces on sea shanty tiktok and how to spell it

https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/tiktok-sea-shanties-explained.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-delights-of-sea-chantey-tiktok
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/style/sea-shanty-tiktok-wellerman.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/16/957593535/why-sea-shanties-have-taken-over-tiktok
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-sea-shanties/

also, if you're unfamiliar with it, the picture itself is a UK meme
https://thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026

(so to be completely clear, i wasn't - and i don't think the original poster was either - putting this up as a sign of how far deepfakes have come, just that they're still in the state of being used more for shitposting than for overthrowing the government)

cmon nyer fact checkers - shanties are sung “unison”?? sheesh

also, if you're unfamiliar with it, the picture itself is a UK meme
https://thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026🕸

Disconcertingly real Tom Cruise deepfakes on TikTok:

I need to know if @TaylorLorenz is aware of the Tom Cruise tiktoks pic.twitter.com/An7AV430AF

— Brian Kosciesza (@BrianKosh) February 25, 2021

you just know this is going to be misused for evil/political purposes and "oh yeah? prove it isn't you" etc

Deep Nostalgia, a new thing from genealogy site My Heritage, which 'animates' old family photos using some kind of deep fake-esque tech.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

The second question in their FAQ is amusing...

"This technology is fascinating but a bit uncanny, don't you think?"

"Some people love the Deep Nostalgia™ feature and consider it magical, while others find it creepy and dislike it."

yike

one vote for the creeps

you just know this is going to be misused for evil/political purposes and "oh yeah? prove it isn't you" etc

― StanM, Friday, February 26, 2021 2:04 AM (yesterday)

In a world where a significant number of people believe the moon landing was faked, I don't think deepfakes are really cause for political* alarm. Photoshop and CGI didn't usher us into a hyperreal nightmare where we're constantly being deluded by fake images. If I've learned one thing from the past few years, it's that lies don't need to be partic convincing for lots of people to believe them.

* meanwhile they have been used extensively to harass and exploit women

I note that almost every source photo is not smiling, but the faked animation always has the subject look at the viewer and give a slight smile. The overall effect is of someone enjoying a private and intimate moment with you. Seems much too predictable to be a coincidence. That level of emotional manipulation of the viewer is creepier than the fact that the faces move somewhat realistically.

SOMEbody read Harry Potter

I signed up to that my heritage thing, just to try it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyl9mh8mvx4

^ very touching and a source of emotional comfort for you, I'm sure

That

is horrifying. Thank you.

I also plugged in one of the freaky photos from the cursed images thread, but the results were too awful to share.

we need a lot more of these please

lol

thanks, forks. <3

This is really weird stuff. pic.twitter.com/Wo6hlb8Aiv

— Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken) February 28, 2021

Weird coincidence, I just came here to post this:

Frederick Douglass, the mighty abolitionist, was the single most photographed person in the United States during the nineteenth century. Here's how he might've looked in motion. Brace yourself and press play. pic.twitter.com/HOxDK7jGyh

— La Marr Jurelle Bruce (@Afromanticist) February 28, 2021

This technology might really take off if they're able to iron out that thing where it looks like the person has a school of jellyfish writhing under their skin every time their head moves.

I think in this case it's not really animated, per se, but hundreds of photos of his face sort of stitched together into a simulation of motion, like a 3-D flip book.

the douglass is very uncanny valley

i think the myheritage thing i gonna blow up this week, nyt trend piece ahoy

Really weird that MyHeritage of all companies beat Adobe or some other design/tech group to this.

Joseph Bloor lives! The most handsome man in Toronto history brought to life by this wild new #DeepNostalgia animation tool from MyHeritage... https://t.co/cQOXjVjDqg pic.twitter.com/QBzdlwxNfV

— Adam Bunch (@TODreamsProject) February 26, 2021

Okay, emerging market space: MyHeritage.com, but for dick pics

That throb in all the wrong ways/places

"Damn, great-great-grandpa Jebediah was HUNG!"

this new technology really is an amazing breakthrough in taking historical photos and making it look like the person is in an elevator awkwardly trying to avoid smalltalk

Yup. The animation adds movement to the photo, but they are completely empty and meaningless motions. They reveal nothing about the person that was not already in the photo. They just blink and strike slightly different poses.

Okay, emerging market space: MyHeritage.com, but for dick pics

― chillin' like Emperor Maximilian (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:44 PM (three hours ago)

That throb in all the wrong ways/places

― Chokeslamming A Memory (Old Lunch), Sunday, February 28, 2021 5:13 PM (two hours ago)

Wait, did that dick smile at me?

that fred douglass tweet has a whole bunch of others in the thread including this particularly uncanny one of a young Ida B Welles

pic.twitter.com/3UKOjBtLNu

— Queena (@luvscure1) February 28, 2021

anyways, as promised, this is blowing up
https://twitter.com/search?q=myheritage

Some of these are absolutely killing me

So I ran a film still of Nicolas Cage through MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia thing. pic.twitter.com/y0kq0MtLIp

— Mark Yarm (@markyarm) February 28, 2021

this myHeritage thing is unquestionably one of the signs of the apocalypse pic.twitter.com/RxRZLUioEg

— Tony Corsentino (@corsent) March 1, 2021

The portraits with weird expressions perfectly illustrate how this software is simultaneously sophisticated, complex, shallow and perfunctory.

this myHeritage thing is unquestionably one of the signs of the apocalypse

Still more lifelike than the real Pete though.

I did one of my late grandmother and it clicked so i called my mother and explained to her what this is and then asked if she wanted to see it and she was like why not? Then i hit send and waited on the phone for her to click through and i hear her scream OH MY GOD so I am afraid I just traumatized my mother.

i think the myheritage thing i gonna blow up this week, nyt trend piece ahoy

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, February 28, 2021 9:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Already got a sore thumb just this weekend blocking everyone slinging this 'OMG LOOK AT THIS' into my tl ffs. The thinkpieces and longreads are being cranked out at top speed as we speak.

xp The Good Son

every single one of these posted in the thread is making me lol irl

inevitably crashed

Good one:

Ran Donald Sutherland (from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, natch) thru Deep Nostalgia and it totally caught the creepiness of this technology... pic.twitter.com/yvHrnB3HXk

— 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕟 𝕋. 𝕄𝕒𝕟 (@swmerrell) March 1, 2021

wombo is amusing

/r/paradolia + Wombo = My weekend plans pic.twitter.com/r0lkBODPbb

— David Eisner (@DavidGEisner) March 11, 2021

I’m uncomfortable @WOMBO pic.twitter.com/6FERAp2zyB

— (trsh) birschbox (@birschbox) March 11, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/22/european-mps-targeted-by-deepfake-video-calls-imitating-russian-opposition

Dutch MPs fell for it as well

The poor resolution on video calls would explain in part why the prank wasn’t immediately apparent to the targets.

seems like a misguided word in this situation

you know what? fuck this

thanks I hate it https://t.co/xuRftW7p4y pic.twitter.com/f08wHXuroE

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 15, 2021

fuck

really awful

We can have a documentary ethics panel afterward

If you want

Even worse, the director claimed that he checked with his widow and literary executor first and, uh:

I certainly was NOT the one who said Tony would have been cool with that. https://t.co/CypDvc1sBP

— Ottavia (@OttaviaBourdain) July 16, 2021

cool, we're only a few steps removed from Gotcha documentaries that intentionally make dead celebrities say things they actually never said to ruin their legacies.

kudos to Ottavia for shutting down the "it was blessed" lie

yeah im not a big expert on bourdain but he didnt strike me as a "please fake my voice" type of dude

Same and hopefully the lie sparks some real outrage about the technique in general. Frankly I don't think it would mitigate things to have gotten permission from survivors anyway. Like is this something to now specify in your will?

The director sounds like a total asshole tbrr: https://www.gq.com/story/anthony-bourdain-morgan-neville-roadrunner-documentary

In that context, I was little surprised by how much you decided to lean into drawing a parallel between his trip to the Congo and Apocalypse Now.

That story, to me, was about, Is he Willard or is he Kurtz? Is he the rational journalist? Or is he the one who has become the protagonist and gone insane? I feel like that’s the dialectic he wrestled with whether the story took place in the Congo or anywhere. I actually think that episode is one of the best depictions of life in central Africa that’s ever been on American television, but that’s the part I was leaning into and, yeah, it’s dancing up against some pretty racist tropes.

jesus christ

It's kinda cool the way that technology has provided novel ways for total ghouls to violate the dead.

To rob's point, I'm glad this high profile example is getting pushback so publicly and vociferously right away so maybe it will help stem the tide of further ghouls attempting this stuff.

i am cool with an ai version of my simulated voice living on after i'm dead, but i would like to produce the texts for it to speak right now while i'm still living

from now on, my life's work shall be my death's life

just point it to ilx tbh

that's true for all of us! hmmm

maybe this tech could specify certain years or decades that it should NOT draw upon for the text

ai is so smart and powerful now i'm sure it could be like, "hmmmm that sounds painful and awkward, imma skip that one"

If I were a famous public figure I would record tons of random footage/speeches/whatever to be used after I die, scenes for movies not yet written and so on. Heck, if Bruce Willis can record all his scenes in one day for boilerplate action movies, yet alone Yul Brynner for posthumous smoking PSAs, the sky is the limit. Like, whenever I was bored I'd record three minutes of myself talking about, I dunno, frogs or something and just add it to the pile. then after I die, if someone has a use for it and wants to pay my estate, go for it.

the painful ai rejection

xp josh if i understand correctly, bruce willis wouldn't even have to record him saying his scenes. they could just take the boilerplate action movie text and apply the voice of bruce willis to it.

"get in the car!"
"i'm fine"
"he's getting away!"
"fuck!"

bruce willis is sitting pretty right now in other words

the question is, would bruce's literary executor sign off on it

*voice of bruce's literary executor, formless but clearly heard in surround sound*

"yes, the willis estate hereby signs off on that"

Yeah, but Bruce could sell official, verified posthumous content. Like, you could get a cheap knockoff off AI Bruce saying "get in the car," or exclusive unseen footage of Bruce saying "get in the car" for big, big bucks.

"fuck, i need to reload! get in the car! we've got to get out of here - to go to the ANNUAL CONVENTION OF HONDA SALES REPS, WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION, WELCOME SALES REPS, PICK UP YOUR FREE GIFT BAG AT CHECK-IN DESK!"

some artschool wag is going to release an indie film with the voices of The Rock and Emily Blunt and get it into MOMA

That movie already exists, it's called The Jungle Cruise.

but does it exist REALLY

the dead speak! it’s ghastly, dead people should be left alone unless they’ve clearly specified that they want their voices used for hilarious pranks or whatnot. the tech could be a godsend for living people who have lost their voice tho!

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42782115

not that that’s likely to be its primary function when there are dead singers to milk. countdown to billie holliday’s rendition of 1-800 cars 4 kids has begun, the future is some weird shit.

there's a "singing for Pepsi" line available in Neil Young's voice already

I don't endorse the misuses but. When I first became aware of the technology it was in the context of hearing my son speak in his own voice.

Isn't this kinda what Roger Ebert was going for after he lost his ability to speak?

Happy belated tenth birthday to this article

Still speaking to us from the past.

here's a newer article: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/tech/tom-cruise-deepfake-tiktok-company/index.html

it's pretty gross how common it is for AI tech companies to pivot from extremely useful medical purposes to some boundary-violating shite that makes money (e.g., most "emotion recognition" start-ups)

Matt Stone talking about what they're going to do with the money from their new South Park deal: "We’re doing deep fakes. We have a studio with a dozen people who are deep fake artists. We’re working on a little more of this deep fake movie we’re trying to piece together."

he's going to have FDR speaking out against lockdowns isn't he

Boy, that's what I'd do with a billion dollars.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/13/1035449/ai-deepfake-app-face-swaps-women-into-porn

who could have predicted this though

From the beginning, deepfakes, or AI-generated synthetic media, have primarily been used to create pornographic representations of women, who often find this psychologically devastating. The original Reddit creator who popularized the technology face-swapped female celebrities’ faces into porn videos. To this day, the research company Sensity AI estimates, between 90% and 95% of all online deepfake videos are nonconsensual porn, and around 90% of those feature women.

you know who does this? crypto dudes, and they're always dudes

🤯 This is not a person! It’s a Real-time controlled CGI puppet in Unreal Engine 5 #ai #cgi #gaming pic.twitter.com/Tb5e8N4ref

— Evan Kirstel #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) November 23, 2021

are they remaking GTA3 again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwZslCIanTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPfM3jSoBw

Lol

owlkitty amazes and delights each time but it's pleasingly just DIY greenscreen

was gonna say don't think either of those are deepfakes

open to placing elsewhere

https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-campaigns-hope-deepfake-candidates-help-get-out-the-vote-11646756345

I could be wrong, but I think this is a first? As usual this stuff is one part deeply ominous, one part extremely silly

Shakur / Presley '24

not reposting but the russians apparently put together a fairly shitty Zelenskyy deepfake

Counterpoint: Deepfakes are going exactly as far as they need to pic.twitter.com/zjs2IVLf8u

— Christian Antonio (@ImCAntonio) February 5, 2023

not really a deepfake? but I've been having fun with

https://www.colossyan.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=Brand%20-%20Global_&utm_term=colossyan&utm_content=610202923404&hsa_acc=3447075045&hsa_cam=17719808142&hsa_grp=135637050901&hsa_ad=610202923404&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-1001819081200&hsa_kw=colossyan&hsa_mt=p&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQiA54KfBhCKARIsAJzSrdqWSZbqmZwk6OTclOFIkLX_8mAJeOid_UXGRB_VKoIcQvKbJpiRtm4aAv7gEALw_wcB

trying to play with that but getting "Actor without script is not supported. Check the 1st scene"?

Actor without script is not supported.

rejection letters of the near-future

here's a new one

https://www.twitch.tv/atheneaiheroes

this is incredible. i've noticed the questions are taken from the chat. is all the chat AI generated as well? or are those real people, and the AI stream is taking their real questions as "food" for the content?

bump

https://djtechreviews.com/news/google-and-universal-music-group-negotiate-ai-deepfake-royalties

from FB: "UMG doesn’t own the rights so how the hell are they licensing them?"

also #onethread, this could go in the AI threads or the copyright threads or idk, this seemed best

I'm with Super Hans on C*ldplay, and know very little of Idles, but the latter's latest video did mildly amuse/interest me (for the initial cognitive dissonance mainly), even if it's nothing at all groundbreaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnd4jIBRfHE