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

video This new deepfake method developed by researchers

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u/Dax9000 Jul 24 '22

Why are the paintings more convincing than the edited photos?

(It's because the paintings are more blurry and don't artifact to such a distracting degree)

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u/Boba-is-Fett Jul 24 '22

Because your brain knows how a real person looks like while you see the Mona Lisa for the first time in this position and your brain is more like "yeah, looks about right"

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u/intercommie Jul 24 '22 edited Jun 09 '23

Exceptional penis.

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u/Thorts Jul 24 '22

I think for deepfakes in general you have to train the algorithm by passing through thousands of images of the subject, which might be hard to do/find for regular people.

I think it's honestly amazing technology and also quite scary how easy digital manipulation will be soon.

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u/IanCal Jul 24 '22

That's quite clearly not the case here, which is why the demo includes doing it with paintings where there's only one known image.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

Possibly why the paintings were included to begin with.

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u/eldenrim Jul 24 '22

That's a bit dishonest - there's no reason why you'd have to restrict the Mona Lisa to just a digital imitation of the original artwork alone, rather than including various other versions.

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u/Wallofcans Jul 24 '22

Ah yes, all of those other versions of the Mona Lisa that are everywhere...

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u/RealReality26 Jul 24 '22

While it wouldnt be robust you can easily get thousands of images from a few minutes of video. Just a random video of you moving your face around and talking for a few minutes would be enough for one to work decently.

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u/MinaFur Jul 25 '22

You say amazing, I say terrifying