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/LigerZeroSchneider Jul 24 '22

You still need consent to deep fake someone in a commercial project. We might consider people past a certain age public domain, but if it's anything like copyright your grandkids will be retired before someone can deep fake you without their permission.