Heard about the latest hot new trend on the Internet? Slightly disturbing, even? It’s splicing someone’s face into a video in place of that of an entirely unrelated person, to make it look like they’re the one in the scene. Except that the result doesn’t look fake at all--you’d think it was real. Naturally, Rule 34 applies. But here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XchCsYtYMQ> is a watchable, and entirely SFW, overview of how it all works. Oh, and the software for doing this is all over GitHub.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
Heard about the latest hot new trend on the Internet? Slightly disturbing, even? It’s splicing someone’s face into a video in place of that of an entirely unrelated person, to make it look like they’re the one in the scene. Except that the result doesn’t look fake at all--you’d think it was real.
Was reading about that Reddit has banned a subreddit where these were being posted. Here's an article on it: http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/08/technology/reddit-deepfake-porn-ai/index.htm... Cheers, William.
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:39:47 +1100, William Mckee wrote:
... Reddit has banned a subreddit where these were being posted.
It seems clear that’s not going to achieve much <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/09/deepfake_ai/>.
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