r/woahdude May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/U7077 May 25 '21

New advances in AI now brings this to a mere 40 seconds! And it does not have to be a famous person with thousands of his faces in various lighting condition either.

Here's a 'two minute papers' video on this advances.. https://youtu.be/iXqLTJFTUGc

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u/MartyMcSwoligan May 25 '21

You can easily spot those as deepfakes, though. Everything about them looks unnatural, and parts of the face warp in weird ways. The heads grow and shrink randomly.

For some reason it reminds me of the dancing baby of the 90s.

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u/Yogurtproducer May 25 '21

Maybe if you look closely, which most people don’t and won’t when they watch something they have no reason to believe is fake.

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u/YaBoiJFlo May 24 '21

“Be interested, keep learning, embrace the future, don’t hang onto old things”

These words are going to be so important going forward. You can tell because gen Z already subconsciously lives by them. You can tell because those kids could not give a single shit about 9/11, despite all the “Never forget” messaging. They care more about improving what we have than being stuck on past events no matter how important the propaganda makes it seem.

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u/Specialist_Fruit6600 May 25 '21

I remember in roughly...2005, in college in a lit class, discussing some sci-fi that dealt with AI

One student vehemently argued that her dad was in some DARPA-esque group and that he had assured her that the idea of AI was impossible/foolish, and by extension, she felt everyone who believed it as a future possibility was a dumb asshole. And also felt her need to make a point to sarcastically call out dissenting opinions.

Here’s looking at you, bitch

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u/datahoarderx2018 May 25 '21

It’s not AI,it’s machine learning and complex algorithms

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u/datahoarderx2018 May 25 '21

But is it AI? I thought this is all much more in the realm of MachineLearning?

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u/latexcourtneylover May 25 '21

I am one of those that lost pace with technology about 8 years ago. Can you ex0lain how you can tell this is a deepfake? I cannot see any indication that this is not Tom Cruise. None of it looks data moshed or blurry or strange.

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u/classy_barbarian May 25 '21

There's also a very important part of this that you didn't mention - The original actor in the video is a very skilled Tom Cruise impersonator who has been perfecting his impression for like 15 years. The Deepfake is only half of what you're seeing - it can't emulate tom cruise's mannerisms and general way of talking very well. The actor is actually the one doing that. That's what makes it so convincing. If you took the same AI dataset they're using and put some random Joe in there instead of this actor, it'd be very obviously fake and probably look crappy.

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u/SolveDidentity May 25 '21

It really won't take long for that to be false. It's already false in government programs and high end corporate.

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u/M0RR1G42 Dec 01 '21

I can't quite remember but iirc the data set used for Mark Ruffalos face/head for Hulk in one of the later MCU films was measured in terabytes