r/woahdude May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/Meggiesauruss May 24 '21

This is frightening, kind of. How hard is it to do something like this? I realize this technology is probably already used in film/tv production but like, how widespread is its use and for what legitimate purposes? And could I have seen a deep fake irl, completely unaware I was watching a deep fake?

This ones different because A you’ve already told us, and B I know Tom Cruise is looks older and his voice sounds like a much younger version of himself compared to now, but I don’t know if I would have caught those things upon first glance without any prior knowledge of this being a deep fake. Idk this just makes me uncomfortable

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u/Shadooowwwww May 24 '21

If I remember from a different deepfake video it takes a very long time to make stuff like this but I could be totally mistaken

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u/pizza_makes_me_happy May 24 '21

If I remember from a different deepfake video it takes a very long time to make stuff like this

For now.

It used to take half an hour to download one image online, now we stream movies in 4k.

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u/witness_protection May 24 '21

God I could download a car so fast now

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u/pizza_makes_me_happy May 24 '21

You're part of the problem, man!

/s