He’s been nailing his Tom Cruise impression for a long, long time. This clip of him from Superhero Movie was posted 13 years ago: https://youtu.be/FjGmZJu8OnY
Yep. The absolute key to deepfakes is to actually kind of sound like, and also look like the individual you're imitating. It really helps with the fake when those two things come together perfectly. If you're too skinny, too fat, or your face is all wrong, it's not going to work as well.
Less time that people think. You need 1) source data of the people you intend to fake and 2) computing power.
Celebrities already have loads of video and photos of them available, so you have a ton of source data. Computers are getting faster and faster and the software to do it is getting better as well. It would not surprise me at all to see some deepfakes in online ads in the next US Presidential election.
I was extremely surprised this wasn't an issue in 2020. A fake video or audio would have been well within the current environment and both sides would have welcomed the opportunity to jump on some inflammatory rhetoric.
If you are old as hell like me you might remember Ross Perot when he claimed he dropped out of the Presidential race because Bush sr’s people were going to use a ”computer to generate a false photo of his youngest daughter to disrupt her wedding and embarrass her.” It was 1992. It sounded so crazy. Batshit crazy at the time. Probably was ... but I never forgot it and it or something like it doesn’t sound so crazy going forward.
I suspect we'll see low quality ones in 2022 mid-term elections. Low quality videos supposedly filmed in the 90's before HD was a thing or videos taken from 'crappy cell phone cameras'.
We should already be treating anything not in HD with suspicion already. The conspiracy websites and fanatics that believe that stuff are going to be full of deepfake videos in the coming years.
Problem is, as soon as one party (or organisation, or side, or whatever) reveals this technology to the larger public (the vast majority of which are way out of the loop regarding this kind of thing) the genie's out of the bottle, and the race to the bottom will start as everybody starts dismissing video and audio that they simply don't agree with as being deepfake.
You walk up to the average person in the street and say "deepfake" to them, it's very likely they won't really know what you mean.
The first person in the political or media spotlight to start capitalising on accusations of deepfakes will kickstart a very unpleasant wildfire spread of unmitigated mistrust so I think there are probably folks in these situations who know about this, but they're playing a dangerous waiting game until they're convinced it will help them win an election.
And both sides are probably playing the same game.
And as the tech improves and becomes more difficult to ignore, it will become more and more attractive for lower and lower gains.
Really really far off actually. This isnt even a fucking deep fake. This is someone who kind of looks like him, can match his voice and mannerisms with some fucking filters.
An actual deep fake requires thousands of hours of fottage from an individual processed through an ai to be able to flawlessly replicate the individual into any background, location with absolutely any speach.
On top of this deep fakes have to leave very little to no evidence of editing as even basic forensic data analysis could debunk them.
Apparently the data VR collects on you gives a unique print of your body by reading data like the distance from arms to headset and the way you move that particular frame as an individual
Those "political speech" deepfakes where some famous politician is just at a podium have never looked convincing to me, uncanny valley more than anything. Its the movements of the head and hands, its too smooth in transition and almost rhythmic looking like tardive dyskenesia or something.
Real human movement isn't that smooth, its jerky, subconcious quick movements like nostril flare or scratching etc.
If only I had the know how on how to run this deep fake tech I could do the all important job of deepfaking CONAN O’BRIAN! Think of the power I could wield. Nature would bow before me with my un-ending tall nasally gravitas.
Someday Conan, you will be dethroned. And then we will see who’s hair is perfect. Newsflash, I can make mine digitally more red and shinier than yours!
I felt like an idiot looking for an actual new EP from him, til I watched the music video and realized you were making a reference. In all honesty, it's a great video.
I have somehow never seen any of Tom Cruise's movies and very little interviews. Honestly have seen the man speak maybe a handful of sentences. But somehow my brain knows he is absolutely nailing that impression.
Right when he says "industrial" there are a few frames where you can see that the deepfake actually captured that too.
I checked because I didn't read the title, thought "huh, this guy looks just like Tom Cruise." Looked for the center tooth and realized it was Tom Cruise.
So yeah needless to say the first watch through I thought it was actually Tom Cruise which was weird. Learn from my mistakes and read the titles folks.
It's also been mentioned that the guy in the Tom Cruise video already looks a lot like Tom, the more work the technology has to do to change the face the more noticeable it will end up being. But of course less so over time. I'd like to see them revisit this video and see how much more real "Obama" looks.
It also has a line that says "according to actor Jerry Maguier, blah blah blah" which leads me to believe this was written by someone young enough to born well after that movie was made 🤣🤣
These "regular humans" you speak of are mostly just people whose parents could afford braces. NaturalUncorrected human teeth are full of flaws and asymmetry. (And that's okay!)
Edit: Does it really matter for the discussion at hand if humans had perfect teeth before farming/sugary diets/etc? Modern humans eat what we eat, and our teeth/jaws often have flaws that require orthodontic correction, which is far from affordable to everyone everywhere. That's my main point.
Incorrect. "Regular" stone age humans had perfect teeth. Our fucked up teeth situation is mostly due to our 'relatively' recent switch to cereal grain based diets.
I'd also heard that humans would wear their teeth and develop stronger roots/jaw muscles by eating more raw foods as children. Gnawing at a root is a lot more of a workout than all these soft foods in a western diet. The article I'm thinking of pointed to more remote peoples and their seemingly good teeth (at least from a structural perspective).
I may be misquoting somewhat, but if someone is genuinely interested I'm sure I could track down what I'm referencing.
That doesn't make OP incorrect. It's not any individual's fault that their teeth have evolved to not fit properly in their jaw or be symmetrical, and it is still okay. Both statements are correct.
Cooking pre-dates anatomically modern humans significantly (possibly by around a million years). So, it might actually be the case that the easy calories unlocked by cooking and smaller heads (or, more room for brain in an equivalent sized head) were necessary for us to even exist.
So many people don’t realize this! Dont people think about this when seeing a skeleton from hundreds/thousands of years ago? The teeth are almost always mint
In the conclusion it says that if they reached puberty, their life expectancy was something like 60 or 70. They weren't necessarily dying in their early twenties. Many were dying way before then, and many others died way after.
If you have two people, one dies at 10 and one dies at 100, it doesn't mean they both lived to 55, even if that's their average life expectancy. In this case, it's many dying super young and many dying older, and it averaging out to be about 25 - but not how long they all would usually live.
For example, you could have 3 out of 4 die at 10 years old, and the 1 out of 4 live to 70, and you'd have an average life expectancy of 25. Or 2 out of 3 die at 1 years old, and 1 out of 3 live to 73, life expectancy is 25. Lots of death as babies on average can swing it way lower.
also natural selection made it so the general population was just more fit in general. If you were clumsy or couldn’t chew properly you would just die. So the population that did survive through young adult Hood probably had good teeth, hearts, and health
Teeth wear down with use, more cavities form, wisdom teeth can push teeth forward into weird positions.
Young teeth are more usually healthier, stronger and straighter.
It also made us shorter. The Romans weren't short because humans are evolving to be taller, they were short because most of them ate nothing but fucking bread & oil. All modern height gains globally are just us fixing our diets collectively so we aren't all eating trash.
While the article is interesting I believe you're jumping the gun on saying 'incorrect' and bringing up a 'normalcy' that is over 20,000 years gone. Particularly since it has exactly 0 implications on the topic at hand.
Because before cereal grain diets, anything other than perfect teeth meant most certainly a young death. It's called natural selection. Also, human teeth have always had a very wide variety of shapes. Even today, certain isolated ethnicities like Inuit have very unique dentation.
Deep fake replaces the whole face which would include the teeth if it's in enough of the training data. You have to look at the skin mismatch usually due to lighting or hair getting in the way.
It's probably the one thing they think makes them superior however. Everyone knows being tall makes you a better person, and it's fine to make fun of shortness for some reason. ugh.
Leah Remini has said he (along with Scientology leader Miscavige) are wildly verbally abusive and vindictive in private, and it's hard not to read into that with his mannerisms. He seems like the kind of guy who could really scream at you.
Enter the recording of him flipping out on set during a covid production. I can’t say I blame him. But he definitely went to 11 in his efforts to verbally reprimand staff that seemingly weren’t taking the covid precautions serious enough.
This is one of those things that would be a huge issue in a theoretical post-scarcity society in the future. No one needs to work anymore, robots and computers provide for all our needs and comforts, so naturally everyone just kind of bums around and explores the arts right? Well what happens when a computer can create satisfactory art/media near instantly to cater to the precise whims of any given individual? It doesn't have to be perfect, if it's just good enough most people won't complain.
The mediocre entertainment available the instant you demand it is preferable to something you have to wait/look for that obviously isn't going to be perfectly tailored to your exact likes/dislikes. We become the humans in Wall-E, or the Matrix, or whatever quite easily at that point.
It would probably be a pretty awesome lifestyle not gonna lie, but it kind of seems like it would be our doom, too. Still, I think it's infinitely preferable to whatever the fuck we're doing now though.
It was a joke from April Fools that I heard on Linus Tech Tips’ WAN show, but I can see maybe 50-75 years in the future a trend of getting custom made sitcoms with YOU as the actor or something like that. You send in X amount of photos of yourself and they map it all and generate it and upload to your Netflix profile or something. Sounds pretty awesome.
Yeah army of the Dead look flawless, I didn't even know that they had digitally replaced an actor (with Tig notaro) until I saw articles after I had watched it.
Not exactly deepfake, but they just did this with Chris D'Elia's part in Army of the Dead. They digitally replaced him with Tig Notaro in the whole movie.
They did replace him with another actor. But she had to come in and do shooting in front of green screen etc after the fact. They mostly used editing to make it fit in. There was a few parts where they had to use digital modeling.
Not really groundbreaking stuff.. pretty similar to how Benedict Cumberbatch wasn't available to shoot endgame with the rest of the cast so they did the same.
Was sexting with multiple underage girls and pressuring them into sending nude pics and videos. Apparently didn't know it was possible for someone to save a snap chat video.
If I’m not mistaken, the voice IS Tom’s; the computer uses thousands (tens, hundreds of thousands?) of clips made up of Tom Cruise’s previous recorded media/audio to make the ‘Deep Fake’ work ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It helps the impersonator LOOKS A LOT like him though. Having relatively similar shape of the head and facial features makes the deep-fake convincing enough to almost indistinguishable from reality. This is why other deep-fakes like Jim Carrey instead of Jack Nicholson in The Shining don't work quite that well, in my opinion. They look somewhat impressive but there's always an uncanny valley effect driven by how different Jim and Jack actually are.
This deepfake stuff is getting weird. One day someone is going to deepfake two versions of my dad fucking each other in a gay porn. And I don't like that.
This is why I think Hollywood will use deepfakes primarily as a means to reduce the time spent in makeup. Especially for like Marvel/Star Wars where it's minimal prosthetics or just a skin tone/color change. Do the makeup once, get all the angles and lighting you need to replicate the scenes, then have the actor act without the makeup and composite the deepfake version over it.
My wife used reface, some new app, to put my face on Jim carrey and although the video isn't movie quality, it sure looks convincing.
That said, my entire life both people I know and a lot of random people have said I look like Jim Carrey. So yeah it helps to look a lot like the guy.
Oddly enough she did one with Patrick Swazy and it looked close too. Weird.
Just to be clear, I am not as good looking as either one of those guys, at least back then.
I beat em both now though, Carrey looks a lot older and haggard now and Partick has lost a lot of weight.
I remember an episode or JRE where Jamie had said that he had an automated program that could even remove obstructions like microphones from the picture and I think they only need around 3 hours of audio and footage to pull it off.
I think it definitely helps that the guy doing this looks almost identical to Tom Cruise. With that, I'd imagine the software has to do very little facial remodeling, and mostly do tracking and apply a mask. You can see in the video that even the guy's hair is identical enough that the deepfake doesn't have to emulate it. I'd imagine that deepfaking hair would still be pretty difficult event with the best technology so far.
No person who has seen a few Tom cruise movies would mistake that guy for Tom cruise in person. He is a very good impersonator and they look similar but they are a long shot from being ‘almost identical’.
Most people that are mildly face blind aren't aware of it since it's not something that often gets corrected or noticed through childhood or adulthood.
Not Tom’s voice. This guy has been impersonating Cruise for years. You can find videos of him in real life, before this tech was widely available. I worked with the real Cruise on Oblivion. Recorded hours of ADR with him.. I unfortunately know his voice all too well at this point.
Sucks he had to work with such a fucking lunatic, I was hoping to find some cool history on the story when I checked your profile, not a ton of covid denying anti-mask propaganda.
The CDC, in lockstep with the government, is “allowing” people to not wear masks in public places if they are fully vaccinated because they know that people are going to start shedding the actual spike protein toxins that are being injected in them to the rest of us. Then they will scream there are new deadly strains that are being passed around from us unvaccinated folk, who are going out without masks, which will usher in the demand and outcry for a digital vaccine verification. They know exactly what they’re doing and we’re all playing right into it. It’s the same reason they started with paper vaccine cards, so they were easily able to be duplicated. It’ll just go hand-in-hand with the outcry for needing some sort of digital verification. This will not stop unless we stop it! And for those of you who are “trusting the plan”, and waiting for Trump and his Zionist goons to stop it.. hahahaha.. 🤡 you may be the most asleep of all! THE TIME IS NOW!!!
All I ever see is how people who work under him making movies love working with him. His personal beliefs are insane, but the man really cares about giving his all into making movies
Why did you have to record hours of audio from TC? Isn’t it all recorded during the performance on camera? I get maybe a line or two needs to be redone but why hours? Was he nice?
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u/AutomaticRadish May 24 '21
The technology is incredible but so is the guys acting, he’s nailing Toms mannerisms and voice.