deepfake

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.