deepfake

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