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AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com)

New submitter samleecole shares a report from Motherboard: There's a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet. But it's not really Gadot's body, and it's barely her own face. It's an approximation, face-swapped to look like she's performing in an existing incest-themed porn video. The video was created with a machine learning algorithm, using easily accessible materials and open-source code that anyone with a working knowledge of deep learning algorithms could put together. It's not going to fool anyone who looks closely. Sometimes the face doesn't track correctly and there's an uncanny valley effect at play, but at a glance it seems believable. It's especially striking considering that it's allegedly the work of one person -- a Redditor who goes by the name 'deepfakes' -- not a big special effects studio that can digitally recreate a young Princess Leia in Rouge One using CGI. Instead, deepfakes uses open-source machine learning tools like TensorFlow, which Google makes freely available to researchers, graduate students, and anyone with an interest in machine learning. Anyone could do it, and that should make everyone nervous.

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  1. Pictures or it didn't happen... by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pictures or it didn't happen... oh wait.

  2. Re: Rouge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suspect Rouge One is the porn version.

  3. Re:I think all reality is in jeopardy by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 4, Funny

    /oblg. You misspelt fapnewsfornerds ...

    *ba dum tsh*

  4. They aren't doing it in VR! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let people act out their fantasies in VR rather than have them do it in real life. If it doesn't hurt anyone, then why is it anyone's business?

    Because the sick twisted fucks aren't doing it in VR; they're doing it using time machines. When they come back, they tell us "Rouge One" is the name of a movie where they're from, but in our universe it's "Rogue One." Don't you see? Someone went back in time and stepped on a butterfly.

    If they'd stick to fucking Tyrannosaurus Rexen in VR, we wouldn't be having this problem, but they're messing with history and it's just a matter of time until someone kills Hitler and then we won't have a space program. "Doesn't hurt anyone" my ass.

  5. "Rouge" One? by ToTheStars · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see the editors have been cursed by the Rouge Angles of Satin!

    I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

    1. Re:"Rouge" One? by sysrammer · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nice. You forgot "swallow your prize and accept the fax", though.

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      His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
  6. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" by sysrammer · · Score: 3, Funny

    By the time a good fake video is shown to be fake, people would have moved on. Damage done.

    Absolutely. Short attention spans. What were we talking about?

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    His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
  7. Re:the internet is for porn by omnichad · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know what shady eBay seller you bought your SSD on, but they aren't supposed to vibrate.

  8. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" by jader3rd · · Score: 3, Funny

    What were we talking about?

    Squirrels.

  9. Re:What? by liquid_schwartz · · Score: 3, Funny

    This article seems to imply that there are people who are surprised by this. People actually didn't see this coming years ago?

    True, but now the time has cum

  10. Re:Why is this bad? by war4peace · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one mostly do things so as to reduce the odds of being fucked by my government when I'm old.

    FTFY. See? I'ts all about sex.

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    ...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)