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Someone Used a Deep Learning AI To Perfectly Insert Harrison Ford Into "Solo: A Star Wars Story" (gizmodo.com)
Andrew Liszewski, writing for io9: Casting anyone other than Harrison Ford in the role of Han Solo just feels like sacrilege, but since Ford is now 76 years old, playing a younger version of himself would be all but impossible. Or at least impossible if you rely on the standard Hollywood de-aging tricks like makeup and CG. Artificial intelligence, it turns out, does a pretty amazing job at putting Ford back into the role of Solo. The YouTube channel "derpfakes" has been posting videos that demonstrate the impressive, and at times frightening, capabilities of image processing using artificial intelligence. Using a process called deep learning, an AI analyzes a large collection of photos of a given person, creating a comprehensive database of them in any almost any position and pose. It then uses that database to intelligently perform an automatic face replacement on a source clip, in this case replacing actor Alden Ehrenreich's face with Harrison Ford's.
It's far from perfect, and the bitrate on that video is abysmal. If he tried this on Blu-ray footage and kept the quality up, Harrison Ford's face would stick out like a sore... face.
But if this is a single user effort, imagine what the resources of a movie studio could do with the concept.
Using them in sexual videos without their consent should be considered sexual assult.
I'm all for protecting people from sexual assault and harm, but really? This is what you call assault? Let me guess, if someone looks at you and you don't want them to, you consider it sexual assault. This is the problem with calling everyone Hitler, or a racist, mysognist, pedophile, etc. After a while those words have no meaning and you have to amp it up even further.
How about we call it misuse of someone's likeness, or just plain rude and obnoxious. If there are laws against this, then they should be charged. But let's not go full tilt stupid.
Nope. He's right. These words have specific legal meanings. You can't have "assault" without physical harm. Otherwise you might as well call it "rape" and be done with it.
Now if you had said "sexual harassment" or "defamation", you might have had a point.
Ok, here's the problem. I have a neighbor that's on the sex offender database. I asked him about it.
Turns out, he was caught peeing an an alley next to a bar. Being a little gross, but harming nobody. The cop booked him for indecent exposure, and it snowballed from there.
All of a sudden, there's no line between a rapist and a drunk kid. Do you see the problem with labeling everything as "Sexual Assault"?
Your daughter gets banged like a screen door every Thursday at the truck stop.
With this kind of parental upbringing you are showing he'd probably voluntarily stay away. People with messed up childhoods are often too difficult to be worth the hassle.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
> To be fair, the data of "young Ford" the algorithm had to work with is decades old. It would be really interesting to see what it could do with data from an actor of the "Blue-ray" era,
You spelled Blu-ray wrong. Also the data of young Ford from the 1970s/80s is in Ultra High Definition (aka film), so the data is not deficient.
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