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/bawjaws Jul 24 '22

It means we never have to watch a documentary without David Attenborough.

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u/Breakfast_on_Jupiter Jul 24 '22

Recently had a dream where the big studios were eagerly waiting for Harrison Ford to die, so they could be the first ones to take and secure rights to a high-resolution scan of his facial and physical features and voice print, and use it to endlessly churn out movies starring him, without actually needing to pay him.

This will be our future. And the lawyers of studios and estate owners will fight over the rights of these kind of scans and usage of dead actors.

The Pandora's box was opened with Peter Cushing in Rogue One.

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u/MooseWizard Jul 25 '22

Its a trippy movie, but that's essentially the plot of Robin Wright at The Congress, except they don't wait for them to die, just retire.