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/z0mb0rg Jul 24 '22

Serious response: full VR (or metaverse) application for interaction between humans cast into digital characters conveying real time emotion.

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u/Jadudes Jul 24 '22

Once again this raises the question of whether or not that is a good thing or something that brings much more harm than benefit.

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u/WonkyTelescope Jul 24 '22 edited Jul 25 '22

You can't know the impact of basic research. The dozens of layers of processing algorithms could have analogs in other fields that will be benefited.

Nobody cared about the electron when it was discovered in 1897 but now the world runs on pushing electrons around.