Tau.Neutrino said:
Oh Look, Google Just Dropped 3000 Deepfakes Online
Synthetic media – AKA ‘deepfakes’ – are developing at an alarmingly fast rate. What was once considered a ropy parlour trick for pornographers has morphed into a highly sophisticated technology that can fool just about anybody.
Deciphering fake videos from reality will soon be impossible and a lot of people are rightly worried. In a bid to combat the problem, Google just uploaded thousands of deepfakes onto Github that people can download for free. Wait, what?
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Wait, what?
> It’s surely only a matter of time before deepfakes are used to destroy the careers of politicians
Oh bullshit, no politician is ever going to turn down free viral media coverage.
> It’s all done on the fly, without the need to manually manipulate each frame. Deepfake’ technology has remained bubbling under the surface, just out of a mainstream audience’s reach. A new app called ZAO, available on iTunes in China, threatens that. The app has shot up the Chinese charts in the few days since its release, effectively making deepfakes mainstream.
Good. I was hoping that was the case. I didn’t want the techniques just limited to black ops government.
> You can request access to the dataset via Google’s FaceForensics github page – but the required fields are pretty restrictive. For example, you need to provide a Lab, Department or Affiliation and a research purpose or project description. “Ogling fake videos for the lols” probably won’t cut it.
Damn ;-)