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An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com)
Samantha Cole, reporting for Motherboard: In December, Motherboard discovered a Redditor named 'deepfakes' quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers' bodies. He made several convincing porn videos of celebrities -- including Gal Gadot, Maisie Williams, and Taylor Swift -- using a machine learning algorithm, his home computer, publicly available videos, and some spare time. Since we first wrote about deepfakes, the practice of producing AI-assisted fake porn has exploded. More people are creating fake celebrity porn using machine learning, and the results have become increasingly convincing. A redditor even created an app specifically designed to allow users without a computer science background to create AI-assisted fake porn. All the tools one needs to make these videos are free, readily available, and accompanied with instructions that walk novices through the process.
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This utilizes Google's TensorFlow. As soon as they get wind of the harm and hurt this is causing the faces of celebrity women they will shut the whole project down. Paying customers of the enterprise TensorFlow plan will have 13 minutes to migrate between notification and shutdown.
... is that people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake". If it went the other way though and actually destroyed the child and exploitative porn market then it would be mostly for the better.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I see fake revenge porn following this.
I'm going to need to see some links. K, thx.
I know plenty of hoes that have more than enough pics on facebook/instagram to work with this. 2018 is gonna be fun.
...really seem boring by comparison.
Wait, out of those three you have a problem with Taylor Swift? Have you seen the hideous troll-creature that is Maisie Williams?
The article also states that someone has done one with Daisy Ridley. I mean she was cool in Star Wars and fit the character well, but let's be honest, she's far from pretty.
How long before one of Trump pounding CNN from behind and Ted Cruz rewtweets it?
Let's see who we wouldn't want to be able to visualize (in any way) having sex:
- Ernest Borgnine
- Marty Feldman
- Either of the Olson twins
- Steve Buscemi
- Vincent Schiavelli
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Christopher Walken
- Clint Howard
- Jack Elam
- Madonna
I'll skiip the obvious political ones.
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Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
In a matter of a few years, the artificially created porn will be good enough to pretty much put the actual porn actors and actresses out of business. We are pretty damned close now. You might need someone to create an audio track, but you don't have to be good looking or have actual sex to do that.
Even if the underage stuff was fake, it wouldn't solve the problem from the perspective of the crusaders. Their aim is the pedos, not the films. They'd consider a completely computer generated film of this sort to be just as bad as one that featured actual people.
Photoshop is an AI program. Who knew?
Now that it's getting this easy we won't be able to believe anything we see. Piss someone off and you'll be getting famous because someone slapped your face on a webcam stream of someone stealing, holding up a store, or just about anything. At least porn won't have the cops knocking on your door because someone recognized the thug in the video.
people wanting out of a relationship with no loss of money will start using this to claim the partner was cheating
no matter how good it is, it is human nature always wants to make things better
If this is now stupid simple to do, so that anyone who can download the tools can create a convincing face swap video, why would this be limited to porn? Someone wanting to ruin someone's reputation could easily swap them into any video. Even if the original is surfaced later to prove the fake, at the speed with which these things spread on 'social' media, the damage will have been done.
And conversely - now anyone can simply claim that any video showing them in a bad way could have been faked by anyone. Proving something is NOT a fake is not that easy.
good grief, what are we teaching our intellectual progeny?!
SKYNET's gonna be a celebrity obsessed pervert.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The future is now, old man.
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nope. But BeauHD is FBI.
l8r punks
Oddly enough, by allowing anyone to create fakes this robs the power of any actual revenge porn or saucy tapes. Any would-be victims can always claim 'it was fake', while the audience can always watch fake porn, leaving no customers for the real videos.
A big surprise - I never expected anything socially useful to happen on reddit...
CAPTCHA: denials
by Franklin Graham. Just don't. Also don't show Trump being penetrated by Alex Jones. Just don't do it.
Reason being: the technology can also be used by politicians or Russian government agencies to produce convincing fake footage of politicians saying inflammatory things.
If this is out there and the public knows it is out there then we can move past the whole "fake news" thing because EVERYTHING is fake news.
The technology is out of the box and cannot be put back in, so this fake outrage about fake porn is simply a smoke screen to try to keep the technology in the hands of those who will use it ONLY for fake news.
It only encourages them.
This is a big deal, in the longer term, but not because it stirs up a hornet's nest of kompromat as usual.
When every rumour is true, no rumour is true.
Slowly, but surely, this will ultimately devalue prurience.
Still, it will be pretty embarrassing to be caught doing your homework, not with Natalie Portman 2.0 (hey, dude, bump my phone), but the sweet young thing who sits beside you in English class baring her soul implausibly, while perfecting her special calligraphy.
The other directions this could go is society bans possession of prurient imagery of actual human beings altogether.
Facebook already has a pretty good algorithm for sniffing out actual human likeness.
Besides, you can just upload all the IRL chicks that hit your buttons, have an advanced ML algorithm map out your dark side, then synthesize your ultimate dark fantasy, which/who pushes all your buttons simultaneously.
Recently, I had to brush up on all this Jungian crap because Jordan Peterson. It's both interesting and creepy.
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Never fear, soon there will be a handy app for our budding Andy Capp.
Except these will leak out and it will become difficult to explain "it's not really me". We think exploitation via sexting pics or sex tapes is bad, it's got to be worse when it's not just a nude selfie but a realistic depiction of your wife/daughter/friend getting double-penetrated by two giants.
Society will eventually adapt.
What's your first reaction if someone showed a hardcore photo of a colleague of yours doing thing that you would never suspected them doing ? "Photoshoped" is probably the first things that will go through your mind.
5 years down from now the word "FakeApped" will probably be accepted in the the dictionnary.
or worse, using the aforementioned skinny young porn actresses and putting real kids' faces on them.
Why is it "worse" ?
No actual kid got hurt in the making of it.
Only some "stock photo" website's collection got download and fed into an deep neural net.
Or another way to put it :
what would you prefer ?
- Some adult pervert fapping to images drawn by another bunch of adult perverts.
- Some adult pervert fapping to the recording of horrible things done to abducted/sold kids ?
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Face swapping in porn vids is a cute trick, but it doesn't take a genius to see the implications of this technology, especially when combined with synthetic voice technology being able to accurately impersonate anybody's voice with just a 1 minute sample. If you thought Photoshop fakery for political gain was bad (for example, the darkened pic of OJ on the cover of Time or the fake John Kerry/Jane Fonda pic from the 2004 election), we're now on the verge of a new era of video fakery for spreading lies, disinformation, and smear campaigns. It used to be said that "pictures never lie" but Photoshop put an end to that (yes, I know photo manipulation has been practiced for decades in the analog age, but it was generally beyond the capability of the average person). With video, the best one could do was to use clever editing to discredit somebody (as happened to Shirley Sherrod). Not anymore. Now anybody can make a scandalous video. If these deepfakes can be done by one person with a desktop PC, what can an organization with deep pockets accomplish?
...so I'm not sure how good they'd be in a porno.
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I'd let Taylor Swift and Maisie Williams take turns dropping greasy shits on my face, and so would you.
It will awesome to see John Wayne in a new western.
John Wayne as a Sheriff going after Clint Eastwood as a renegade Civil War vigilante.
So any video of that shooter on the grassy knoll is fake? The Illuminati is going to love this new tool.
Trump's head, Putin's body, Ivanka, and Bannon waiting his turn
I can't wait until I can swap in my own face. If I can't get some IRL at least I can watch an AI-produced video of my likeness getting some.
Man... that sounds HOT!
You're telling me that I can do this for myself and my beloved? Sounds like a great valentine's day gift. It'd be fun, and exciting (underlined and italicized) to see ourselves with professional endurance, athletic bodies, and decent lighting. And I wouldn't mind envisioning my beloved doing things that she'd never ever be able (or willing) to do!
Having viewed some of these videos, I would say it's only "convincing" if you're very nearsighted and/or gullible. Don't get me wrong, it's a significant achievement and a big step, but anybody watching these videos can very quickly tell that the face they are seeing was not the original face.
I read an article by a data analytics guy for an online dating company in which he noted that while there was a positive correlation between attractiveness ratings of profile pictures and attempted contacts, profile pictures with the greatest variance in ratings got the most interest of all.
In other words your best bet is not to be conventionally pretty, but to appeal strongly to unconventional tastes.
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It's no different than Alec Baldwin pretending to be Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. It's artistic expression. And it spotlights the selfish and condescending attitude of "celebrities", who imagine, and even flat-out declare, that they are better than the rest of humanity. Or that porn stars are less than human.
Celebrity culture is toxic, and a tragic drain of the world's production. It should not be encouraged.
Why is there already no Dredd "parody" with LaBeau as Judge Anderson is a mystery to me.
political figures and rename it "Deep State".
And don't throw me in that briar patch.
What ever happened to the traditional technique? Just imagining your S-O is someone else?
Computer Science lost its innocence a lot faster than did Nuclear Science.
Wrong for several reasons.
a) Scat is disgusting and unhygienic
b) I like women, not little girls
c) My standards are obviously much higher than yours
You sound really desperate. I guess that's what happens when you're a middle-aged virgin.
A redditor even created an app specifically designed to allow users without a computer science background to create AI-assisted fake porn.
The real question is: when did Slashdot lose the mantle of innovation to Reddit?
Ugh. Java. Delete this crappy software.
Adding this to my "The unibomber was right" list of proofs.
which beats open sores, for the win
When will we get body swaps?
I'll be both the girl and the boy and suck my own cock, hells yeah.
what about CSI though?
They would zoom in to the character's eyeball showing a reflection of the original studio and photographer. They would then zoom in to the camera lens in this picture showing the original scene from which the imposed face was taken, showing it was fake.
As an encore they would find a "fingerprint of the computer" used to manipulate it, look up the IP address of this and then track it to a particular room in a house. If it were CSI Miami Horatio Caine would arrest the computer user with some cringe-worthy comment like "You thought you could make it look like Oprah was cuming, but now the law is coming for you".
... He daydreamed, as he sat in his mother's basement, 4K monitors bathing his Cheeto dust-covered sweaty corpulence in pale sickly light, as the DIY bitcoin rigs whirred and the rank smell of week-old pizza and dried semen filled the air.
What a surprise - Slashdot is full of losers who look at pornography, call it "porn", and think it does no harm to anybody. It's doing harm to YOU, never mind other people.
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I'm sure his mother wishes she had an abortion instead.
I mean those tasks sound automatable too ... with n AI. And with enough power, a few days become a few seconds.
...said the insecure and envious manchild who is married to an amorphous, horse-faced blob.
... would be my artistic work.