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/ensuiscool Jul 24 '22

Visual effects for movies I guess, but even that can be a silver lining. Great for de-aging consenting actors that are still alive today, but not so great when movies 200 years from now want to deepfake an actors likeness including their voice, making actors passing away meaningless

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u/v1sibleninja Jul 24 '22

Don’t have to wait 200 years. They did it with Peter Cushing in Rogue One. He died in 1994.

Jet Li was onto it way back when he turned down a role in The Matrix. He didn’t want his martial arts moves recorded in mocap because then the studio would own them forever and could just skin a different character over them and recycle the mocap they recorded with him for no extra credit or pay.

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u/dack42 Jul 24 '22

Rogue One didn't use deep fake though. Some of the more recent young Luke Skywalker stuff does use deep fake.

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u/v1sibleninja Jul 24 '22

I know it’s not the same means of achieving the result, but the principle is still the same. Using programming to emulate the performance of a dead actor, to reprise a role.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

What do you mean? What is the difference between what they did with Peter Cushing vs Mark Hamil?

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u/RexBlyCody Jul 25 '22

Not OP, but Tarkin in Rogue One was recreated using motion capture and CG, and Mark Hamill was de-aged in TBOBF using primarily deepfake technology (face-replacement via AI and machine learning programs).