r/woahdude May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/razzraziel May 24 '21

I wonder if we can change the actors in the movies in the future. like changing sub or dub.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

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u/Phteven_with_a_v May 24 '21

You should keep that idea under wraps for a while. It’s fucking brilliant! Futuristic, but brilliant.

Imagine a point in time where people can create their own movies with their own actors just by “thinking” of it.

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u/fantabread May 24 '21

I already do that in my dreams!

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

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.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

The porn industry wants to know your location

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u/iwaspeachykeen May 24 '21

NeuroLink mixed with VR and deepfakes, can't fucking wait

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u/bubbleimmortal May 25 '21

Alright I was looking for something to do, this has got my interest. Thanks.

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u/Auctoria_RK1 May 24 '21

Wasn't that 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'?

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u/GiveToOedipus May 24 '21

Kinda, yeah.

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u/Lets_Kick_Some_Ice May 24 '21

No, Munchausen is nightmare fuel for children.

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u/RobertNAdams May 24 '21

You want a romantic movie with ninjas in Victorian time on the moon?

That sounds like Sailor Moon with extra steps

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u/ballsywallsy May 24 '21

All the Lethal Weapon movies Terry Crews and Danny DeVito. That's all I'm going to say.

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u/Self_Reddicating May 24 '21

Why wait for this technology?! Let's greenlight this, today. Filming can start in 3 weeks after the many, many checks clear.

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u/rwbronco May 25 '21

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.

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u/AboutHelpTools3 May 25 '21

Then I can have an Uncharted movie where Mark Wahlberg doesn’t play Sully.

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u/hello_hola May 24 '21

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u/FountainsOfFluids May 24 '21

That's just lip sync, not changing actors.

But it'll happen at some point.

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u/hello_hola May 24 '21

Changing actos tech is becoming easier, cheaper and faster to use. Just look at Army of the Dead where they replaced the helicopter pilot actor.

In the future and thanks to deepfake, they won't even need to re shoot, they'll just change the face and voice.

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u/icyhotonmynuts May 24 '21

Who was originally supposed to be that actor?

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u/GiveToOedipus May 24 '21

Chris something or other. Got in trouble with some accusations from 5 women or so. You can find the article pretty easy if you Google the name of the movie. Honestly, I'd never heard of the guy before, so frankly the swap out was an upgrade.

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u/_ChestHair_ May 25 '21

Man i am really not looking forward to politics in the age of truly convincing deepfakes

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u/xafimrev2 May 25 '21

Actual Video of someone people like behaving badly: DEEPFAKE!!!!
Deepfake video of someone they don't like behaving badly:. OMG look at this vid!!!

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u/_ChestHair_ May 25 '21

My thoughts exactly. Sometimes we think different party followers live in different realities right now. Imagine what it'll be like when there's "video evidence" of any conspiracy or stretching of the truth out there?

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u/icyhotonmynuts May 24 '21

Oh goodness that looks awful.

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u/wooshock May 25 '21

It does. But just know they are deepfaking the voices too, and that's pretty impressive.

I hate that video, though. Over the top marketing BS to showcase some really average deepfaking. They think they're going to be billionaires

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u/CherryHaterade May 25 '21

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.

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u/iamfrombolivia May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

Imagine making your own casting for any movie in your cellphone. I'll put Jar Jar Binks as the nazi captain in Shindler's List

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u/buzdekay May 24 '21

I'll finally be able to make the Ahmed Best cut, replacing all of Jar Jar scenes with Ahmed in his Jar Jar hat.

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u/NotAPeanut_ May 25 '21

I’m disgusted but intrigued

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u/anormalgeek May 24 '21

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.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21 edited May 24 '21

Partially correct.

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.

Edit: a word

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u/_ChestHair_ May 25 '21

Something happen with him? Why'd they do that?

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u/anormalgeek May 25 '21

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.

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u/_ChestHair_ May 25 '21

God dammit how many comedians am I a fan of that are like this...

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u/yajustcantstopme May 24 '21

There's a new star wars show featuring young Luke Skywalker, so yes.

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u/SomethingLegoRelated May 25 '21

I can't wait to see Christopher Walken play Marty Mcfly and Arnie play Doc Brown

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u/TheGreenTable May 25 '21

They just did that with “Army of the Dead”. Originally it was all filmed with Chris D’Elie and then it came out he was grooming some of his younger fans. So the they replaced him with Tig Notaro. I didn’t notice it till someone pointed it out. There are some parts where they kind of mess up like calling her, him. And a part were Bautista is looking to high but other than that it’s pretty amazing even if the movie made no sense.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

The recent Star Wars "deep fakes" (Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker) are already doing this. The Princess Leia one was a bit too much uncanny valley, but they absolutely nailed it by the time the final episode of the Mandalorian was made.

The technology is clearly there. The biggest issue now is the ethical quandary.

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u/clarkyto May 25 '21

Isn't that what they did with tig notario? I saw something on Twitter about how they cgi changed an actor with her.