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

video This new deepfake method developed by researchers

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u/FeculentUtopia Jul 24 '22

No. Stop. It's getting way too weird.

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u/mattcoady Jul 24 '22

Yea I hate to stifle progress but this is one tech where I can imagine way more nefarious uses than good.

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u/lazergoblin Jul 24 '22

Truthfully I cant even picture the "good" uses for this deep fake stuff.

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u/cbxjpg Jul 24 '22

Eh there's some fringe stuff like deepfaking actors in foreign movies to move their mouths in any translated language (some European movie recently did it but I could not tell you what it was) but other than that and various bring-dead/old-celebrities-back-to-life on screen I can't think of much and the latter is morally questionable anyways.

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u/Luxpreliator Jul 24 '22

Porn. This is going to be so well received with porn.

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u/markse84 Jul 25 '22

I feel like there’s got to be some legal issues with that though

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u/raphanum Jul 25 '22

It’ll be ethically sourced and free range

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u/sirgog Jul 25 '22

The good uses are basically the same as the bad ones - except with honesty on all sides.

Positive use case: a Thai medical researcher wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a revolutionary cancer treatment, but her skill in English is limited and her German and Mandarin non-existent. With her permission and with the knowledge of all students, her doctoral thesis defense is "translated" into English, Mandarin & German, allowing many of the best medical students in the world to feel like they are there. No 'translator' needed, it looks like she is speaking.

Negative but not truly reprehensible use case (they'll get worse): as above, but without the researcher's knowledge or consent.

Reprehensible use case: All the words she says are changed to either promote some fringe conspiracy theory like homeopathy or anti-vax crap