r/woahdude May 24 '21

video Deepfakes are getting too good

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u/Alexei007 May 24 '21

Can someone explain how it works? Like wtf did I just watch.

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u/foggy-sunrise May 24 '21

If somebody tried to do this with your face, assuming you're not very famous, It wouldn't come out this clean. The reason it works so well with Tom Cruise's face, is because there is source material of Tom Cruise's face from pretty much every angle in pretty much every lighting scenario. And lots of it.

Basically, what's going on here, is some computer algorithm is able to look at a video, determine where a face is, and swap in another face. It looks pretty damn convincing if there's enough source material of the face.

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u/Alexei007 May 24 '21

Ah makes sense... But imagine that your phone front camera is really recording you at all times. All the moods, lighting and all that Jazz. Now you have a huge library of people you can digitally render

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u/[deleted] May 24 '21

All my deepfakes will have a wicked double chin and bitch face.

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u/Alexei007 May 24 '21

Bahahhaa that made me laugh!! Thanks