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Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method (gizmodo.com)
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out a new method to create deepfakes -- videos that make it look like someone said or did something they didn't say or do. They're usually manipulated using machine learning and have been a big problem for porn sites, as they can be used to create fake celebrity pornographic videos or revenge porn. According to Gizmodo, the researchers "have figured out a way to automatically transfer the 'style' of one person to another." From the report: "For instance, Barack Obama's style can be transformed into Donald Trump," the researchers wrote in the description of a YouTube video highlighting the outcome of this method. The video shows the facial expressions of John Oliver transferred to both Stephen Colbert and an animated frog, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Obama, and from Obama to Trump. The researchers describe the process in a paper as an "unsupervised data-driven approach." Like other methods of developing deepfakes, this one uses artificial intelligence. The paper doesn't exclusively deal in translating talking style and facial movements from one human to another -- it also includes examples with blooming flowers, sunrises and sunsets, and clouds and wind.
For the person-to-person deepfakes, the researchers cite examples of how certain mannerisms can be transferred, including "John Oliver's dimple while smiling, the shape of mouth characteristic of Donald Trump, and the facial mouth lines and smile of Stephen Colbert." The team used videos available to the public to develop these deepfakes. It's easy to see how these techniques might be applied in a more innocuous way...
For the person-to-person deepfakes, the researchers cite examples of how certain mannerisms can be transferred, including "John Oliver's dimple while smiling, the shape of mouth characteristic of Donald Trump, and the facial mouth lines and smile of Stephen Colbert." The team used videos available to the public to develop these deepfakes. It's easy to see how these techniques might be applied in a more innocuous way...
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No, I really have trouble seeing a less innocuous application than making John Oliver look like an animated frog. Not even using the example in TFA. It's the less innocuous things that concern. I suspect this was intended as a throwaway line to point at positives before transitioning to the apocalyptic.
Deep Fakes have been around since back when someone faked Trump's "grab her right on the vagina" video. Also the moon landings. #truthIsn'tTruth
I think you mean LESS innocuous.
I know deep fakes, creimertards make me do or say things I never say :)
But I don't care,
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I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.
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John Oliver is an animated frog.
You couldn't trust a word any of them said... way before AI was ever on the drawing board.
the deepfake looks pretty poor if you actually look at the video. It's all twisty and distorted in strange ways, but somehow it seems ok when compared with the actual regular video next to it.
no doubt mimicry like this is coming, but this isn't quite the real thing yet
I think people will use it as a prop when claming other real video is faked though. They will say the latest scandal against their group has been edited and deepfaked without any way to prove it, and those who want to believe will continue to believe
Headlines don't need adjectives. We don't need to be told what to think about something that is being reported. We are able to make up our own minds.
Just give us the information. We'll form our own opinions.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
What I actually said was "Grab â(TM)em by the pussy. You can do anything."
And to be fair, I also called Billy Bush a "pussy" which of course he is.
Sad.
@realDonaldTrump
To grade journalistic integrity? That's rich. Stick to something you understand, like propaganda from ideologue farts on Sinclair media. You breathe that shit as if air, you don't know the difference.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/274920/FaceRig/ Congratulations on applying existing technology, golf clap for Carnegie Mellon?
Big Brother is no longer just watching: Big Brother is now taking direct action. ;-)
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Just sayin'.
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The deepfake method needs to be perfected before the "pee tape" released so that The Donald can claim its not actually him in the video.
Usual hyperbole over this - the images are clearly manipulated and you would need to be pretty dim witted to think the fake was real.
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that's not what revenge porn means
Just give us the information. We'll form our own opinions.
And that's OK.
does not convince me of a proof of concept as much as a FUD campaign to attract attention to its ancillary claims of assisting film direction and self-driving cars and the latest battleground of chip makers.
Would were! Should is! Could be! And live a hundred times three.
But I assume that would be fairly straightforward once they've done the video...
...is to get back to deep thoughts.
In the video, they compare MLK and Obama, claiming they have similar philosophies. Nothing could be further from the truth.
MLK called for whites and blacks to get along, to help each other, and to lift each other up as brothers and sisters in CHRIST - to set differences aside, forgive, and love one another. He had a dream.
Obama, on the other hand, exploited divisiveness to his own gain, because he did not have a dream. He had a plot.. a strategy to an insidious end. He had no interest in blacks living along whites in harmony. He was interested in power, condemnation, judgment, and hate. That is Obama's legacy.
No, this cheapens the look of the site and attempts to steer the reader and bait clicks. Tabloid style journalism, surely you meant.
If you watch the video, it's really not some creepy omg Donald Trump looks like Obama now! It just makes the altered video look a little strange and obviously doctored. I would say nothing to worry about.
"... Barack Obama's style can be transformed into Donald Trump"
No, really you cannot. I mean technically you probably can, but you cannot in any other context. Giving Rump some style and class via Obama would be an Uncanny Valley experience, akin to watching an elephant dance. The miracle isn't that the elephant dances well, the miracle is that the elephant dances at all!
The schadenfreude is strong. I'm having real difficulty feeling sorry for the people who are going to be the most upset about this: Politicians and celebrities. I'm a little worried someone might try to use the tech to start a war, but ask me to spend one microsecond feeling sorry for some celebrity for being pasted onto a porn star, and I'm failing utterly.