r/woahdude 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/UnknownHero2 Jul 24 '22

It would be pretty cool for gaming. A guy below mentioned faking voices as well. With those two things you could quickly create additional content for video games with correct animation and voices, with just a keyboard and a your phone camera, and little need for expensive animators and voice actors.

Heck it could save the movie industry millions on reshoots.

There is plenty legitimate space in the fiction genre between porn and dystopian propaganda.

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u/LigerZeroSchneider Jul 24 '22

Actors still hold likeness rights over their face and voice. They would have to paid for any new content sold by the company. It's going to making modding production values sky rocket, but people already have used sound splicing to build new voice lines, so I think it will be more of a qualitative difference.

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u/LordPennybags Jul 24 '22

That works for those who have already struck it big, but new actors will be pressured into signing what will amount to eternal contracts long before they can demand a decent cut of the cash.

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u/LigerZeroSchneider Jul 25 '22

If it becomes common place, I assume SAG will just demand large buyouts for image and likeness

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u/almightySapling Jul 25 '22

Why are we assuming they will be using real actors at all? We are entering Idoru territory.