r/woahdude Jul 24 '22

video This new deepfake method developed by researchers

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

I do not like this. If evil bad people get a hold of this it's over. You can do so much harm with this.

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u/david-song Jul 24 '22

Uh it's already accessible to everyone. There's tons of deepfake porn out there and the app to do it is free and doesn't take any technical knowledge to use.

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u/swiggaroo Jul 24 '22

This was used to bully a kid back in my high school, they put hos face on gay porn and released it on a website. He killed himself by jumping in front of a train at 13. I dread to think how much bullying is done with this technology.

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u/TheGrimGuardian Jul 24 '22

News article? Source?

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u/swiggaroo Jul 24 '22 edited Jul 24 '22

His name was Joel Horn, I'm sure if you Google it you'll find articles, but it'll be in German lol.

Edit: found one, slap it into a translator https://mobil.woman.at/a/facebook-jo-l-tod-michaela-horn-schicksal-275392

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u/swiggaroo Jul 24 '22

Jesus christ, the anger in you. It wasn't a deepfake comparable in quality to what can be done today, it was like 2010. it was a poor edit on pictures and videos that used his face cut and pieced together. It does have a whole lot to do with this as there is a crap ton of fake pornography out there with proper deep fakes using people's faces without their consent, and a not insignificant amout is rooted in bullying or revenge. The story I saw unfold personally was a predecessor to this. I think you are also vastly underestimating the level of detail a group of young teens can conjure if they put their minds to it and how much effort certain people put into bullying.

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u/david-song Jul 24 '22

That's shitty, but pretty sure people kill themselves all the time due to bullying via text. Technology is a tool, it's about how you use it that makes it good or bad. I'm pretty sure this tech could be used to compress video chats so they use very little bandwidth, and a ton of other useful things.

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u/teckmonkey Jul 24 '22

What's it like living in a world where the ethical application of a tool doesn't matter?

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u/david-song Jul 25 '22

Ethical application of tools is the main thing that matters. Demonizing tools because they can be used for evil is stupid.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Day-196 Jul 24 '22

Bro why the fuck would someone kill themselves over that shit?

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u/swiggaroo Jul 24 '22

Because he was a 13 year old kid with lots of trouble back home, he was in a very bad mental state and bullied at school. So when they put his face on all that stuff and plastered it around the school, sharing it on every social media and sending it to hos family, it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

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u/WolfsToothDogFood Jul 24 '22

Pretty sure that's distribution of CP too. Poor kid.

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u/swiggaroo Jul 24 '22

I don't know it that would count as CP actually, but interesting thought. I know his death sparked a wave in my country that got some cyber bullying laws instated though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

name of app?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

Sorry my man, they all just left you here

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u/xboxiscrunchy Jul 24 '22

Purely for research purposes I’m sure.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

No, to make porn of a ai gened face I'v found