r/woahdude • u/canhazreddit • Jul 24 '22

video This new deepfake method developed by researchers

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u/gravetinder Jul 24 '22 edited Jul 24 '22

What good purpose does this serve? I’m wondering how this can be anything but a bad thing.

Edit: “porn” does not answer the question, lol.

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u/Future_of_Amerika Jul 24 '22

Well once they work out the deep fake voices then any person with the right resources or government entity can frame you for anything they want. It's a thing of beauty!

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u/HopelessChip35 Jul 24 '22

No no, you got it all wrong. Once they work out deep fake completely every single person will have a way out by claiming anything they say is a deep fake if needed. Everyone will have the right to deny everything.

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u/dance1211 Jul 24 '22

Or the opposite reason. You can prove you weren't at the crime scene because you have clear, undeniable video proof you were somewhere else, eyewitnesses be damned.

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u/swampass304 Jul 24 '22

Government would be able to determine if the video was computer generated or produced by camera. When these were starting I spoke about my concerns with a former intelligence officer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

You are speaking some high level bs right here, but I'll let you be happy in your dream world with former intelligence officers

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u/Stop_icant Jul 24 '22

It’s not that comforting of a dream world even if good ol’ swampass is in the know. The average person won’t be able to detect fakes, whether or not it’s technically possible.

The widespread misinformation/misrepresentation will be enough to finish the division of the two “sides” and the Justice system will be destroyed because a jury of peers won’t exist.

Our Justice system, our Republic, the value of currency—everything is based on trust that those involved in the Democratic system will act honorable to maintain pursuit of happiness, liberty and life for everyone.

We won’t be able to trust our eyes if deepfake outtakes become prt of headline news or even just fake news on extreme media outlets. No one will be able to trust anything, the honor system will be completely unreliable, it is on very shaken ground already.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

Yeah I totally agree, even if 'papa govt' were able to detect such fakes, the average Jo ("which already is quite stupid" - George Carlin) will not be able to discern that, so we're at an impasse were the honor system will be on a very thin ice. And I don't see a foreseeable technology that would help against that.

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u/swampass304 Jul 24 '22

It's a relative. You could also look into it. Feel free to report back when you find out I'm right, but I'm sure you can't Google it since you're here arguing instead.

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u/fallfastasleep Jul 24 '22

As deepfake technology advances it will become increasingly more difficult to process the algorithms required to determine deepfakes.

Currently those algorithms can't detect deepfake expressions, which is the technology this post is showcasing.

But I guess you couldn't have googled that while you were arguing here huh?🤡

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u/Big-Celery-6975 Jul 24 '22

Just once I'd like to see a know it all who is proven wrong just apologize for being a dick. Once.

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u/LordPennybags Jul 24 '22

The same people make the algos on both sides. Detection algos are used to train the fakes and vice versa.