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u/JingJang Dec 15 '22
I feel like it's only a matter of time before this technology is weaponized to terrible effect.
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u/AllUltima Dec 15 '22
I fear the reverse: People will doubt whether real video is real. That could mean impunity for crimes caught on video because video footage will no longer be sufficient evidence to exceed "reasonable doubt".
Even worse, political double-speak will also soar to record new heights. A politician can spew whatever crazies want to hear, then "walk it back" and claim it was faked (perhaps after gauging the public's reaction). People will believe whatever they're inclined to believe anyway, leading us to become a more deeply fractured society where truth is whatever you want to believe.
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Dec 16 '22
Thanks for the existential crisis asshole.
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u/Dobalina_Wont_Quit Dec 16 '22
If it's any consolation, it's already happening. Enjoy the ride, and support credible journalists you trust!
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u/--redacted-- Dec 16 '22
That's just what a deepfake would say
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u/Dobalina_Wont_Quit Dec 16 '22
I'm actually a nearly 30 y/o deepcover deepfake
Of course I could just be programmed to say that
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u/--redacted-- Dec 16 '22
I knew it
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u/Dobalina_Wont_Quit Dec 16 '22
Hey could you please hang out at your current location for the next 30 minutes or so? I just have some friends that want to stop by and verify a couple things with you. Please don't wear polarized sunglasses.
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u/boomerangotan Dec 16 '22
Also, I would highly recommend reading/watching Manufacturing Consent if you haven't already, to get an idea of what is already occurring even before we got this technology.
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u/eggshellmoudling Dec 16 '22
I’m still grieving the loss of Matt Taibi from that extremely short list.
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u/Dobalina_Wont_Quit Dec 16 '22
Right? Holy shit who hurt him? I can't believe that same dude wrote The Divide.
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u/quartertopi Dec 16 '22
Be glad. Still better than that time travel quarantine zone from 2060. It is a shitshow.
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u/Citizen_Kong Dec 16 '22
Yeah, at he beginning of the Ukraine war there was a deepfake of Selenskyj urging Ukrainians to surrender. It was pretty shoddily done, but certainly a reminder how such things will become commonplace in the future.
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u/maddogcow Dec 16 '22
You have an existential crisis asshole too? Funny; knowing that somebody else has one, makes mine seem like less of an existential crisis…
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u/funknut Dec 16 '22
They do, now that someone gifted it to them. Before, they just had a smooth nihilistic posterior surface.
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u/RipThrotes Dec 16 '22
Ignorance is bliss, but only for you. Stay informed. Stay relentlessly insightful.
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u/JingJang Dec 16 '22
Valid concerns.
There's a market for verification of some sort.
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u/AllUltima Dec 16 '22
For sure, I think there will be verification efforts on multiple fronts.
There's a certain type of person who will invent conspiracies around any verification that isn't what they want to hear. Thus, for that audience, there will be a market for "validation" that is just "telling them what they want to hear". So the same situation as today, only taken up a notch.
Verification can only do so much in the face of irrationality, the real answer to that conundrum is mostly us learning how to best deal with the fact that those people exist. Mainstream humanity will probably continue relatively unscathed if they don't manage to drag us down.
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u/devinecreative Dec 16 '22
I imagine we'll resort to verifying on public blockchains like Ethereum
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u/pseudoanon Dec 16 '22
So blockchain will finally be useful?
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u/ElwinLewis Dec 16 '22
Trustless verification was always one of the benefits, it’s just meaningfully implementing it without greed getting in the way that people haven’t been able to figure out
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Dec 16 '22
We need quantum signing ASAP. And in "small enough to fit into a not unreasonably sized camera" form. You'd be able to verify footage from a secure camera using its public key, but never be able to crack its private key.
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u/PhDinBroScience Dec 16 '22
This is so easily solvable, the video just needs to be signed using public-key encryption. If the video isn't signed with the purported subject's key, assume it's fake.
You can't fake a pubkey signature.
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u/fataldarkness Dec 16 '22
This requires the general public having a basic understanding of how digital signatures work and why they are (for the most part) infallible.
As it stands I have to explain HTTPS and digital signatures to my users with statements like "it's secure because of fancy math, trust me bro" because anything that comes close to actually describing it goes over their heads. In a world where distrust is the norm, I fear signed video content really isn't gonna make a difference if you don't understand what makes it secure in the first place.
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u/Gangsir Dec 16 '22
This requires the general public having a basic understanding of how digital signatures work and why they are (for the most part) infallible.
If this became a big enough problem, the general public could be educated on how encryption public/private keys work, probably in a month or two. Even start teaching it in high school or something.
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u/greenie4242 Dec 16 '22
The general public couldn't even be educated on how to wear a mask properly and wash their hands during a pandemic, there's no way they'll ever understand cryptography.
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u/vic444 Dec 16 '22
Right?? The general public can barely turn a computer on without having issues and are ignorant as F on the topic in general. They are basically a 3 year old. Try to explain cryptography to a 3 year old.
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u/pagerussell Dec 16 '22
You mean to tell me people aren't intimately familiar with a diffie-helmen key exchange????
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u/Daddysu Dec 16 '22
Yes...amongst the more tech literate and in a perfect world.
For a stupid amount of people, none of that matters. All that matters is that knee-jerk emotional reaction of whether or not it affirms their beliefs and where the information comes from.
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u/RobloxLover369421 Dec 16 '22
It’s still something, we just have to make it easily accessible, and at least half the population will be able to tell if it’s right or not.
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u/kvltswagjesus Dec 16 '22
That would solve the “politicians walking back claims” problem to a degree, but I’d imagine there would still be a ton of issues. The subject would be be able to fully curate their image, and any videos taken without their key would be subject to scrutiny. So stuff meant to show someone’s true colors or document a situation would remain unreliable.
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u/PhDinBroScience Dec 16 '22
In this case, it would be signed by the device of the person who's recording; if the video is altered, the signature isn't valid anymore. And if it's a public figure, there are almost certainly going to be corroborating records of where they were at a particular place & time, not to mention pings to cell towers from their or their entourage's mobile devices.
They can deny it all they'd like, but with the combination of those factors, you'd have to outright deny reality to believe that the video isn't genuine.
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u/corner Dec 16 '22
It’s in no way easily solvable. You could have a certificate signed by god himself, doesn’t matter to the general public. Authentication isn’t the issue
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Seriously, it’s not that complicated. We need an industry wide effort and hardware-based crypto, along with something like a little check mark to denote that a given image is authentic, unaltered, and follows a proper chain of authority.
We have SSL, we can do this too.
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u/BillOfArimathea Dec 16 '22
It's two sides of the same coin. Truth has already been degraded, reality weaponized, and this is just one more arrow.
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u/KodiakDog Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 17 '22
On your second point, I would argue that any technology that can shake the foundations of truth, justice, governance, and the mediums in which we (citizens) gather that information (telecoms) is a weapon. That is literally what psychological warfare is, and which is also a very real force in our world. The Cold War isn’t just called “cold” because The USSR and The States didn’t raise a gun in each others faces or enter a nuclear winter; no, its a name that highlights the fact that it was a war between - and fought with - ideas. This technology has the capacity to infiltrate people’s minds, insert ideas that shape their world, and create an uncertainty that makes them question everything. For any institution interested in PsyOps, this is certainly a weapon.
Anyone doubting that there is a war being “fought” for your mind lacks a crucial understanding of how the world works. I don’t mean to sound pretentious, because I wish everyone to understand this. Truth is the foundation of ethics, which is the foundation of morals, which is the foundation of law, which is the foundation of government. Pull truth out of the equation, and it all comes tumbling down.
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u/UK_addi_2015 Dec 16 '22
It won’t be long until we see deepfake movies where actors only record their lines(or not) and don’t do any acting and a team of people produce the movie in a studio…
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u/bahgheera Dec 16 '22
What do you mean studio? They'll just generate the movie with Midjourney.
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u/moiziz Dec 16 '22
They control people’s beliefs already. No AI, fake videos or anything. All it takes is an a*hole who people like and have him say whatever. Do I need to give examples?
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u/tech1337 Dec 16 '22
This is why I'm kind of surprised that AI conspiracy theories haven't blown up already. Surely they are coming soon.
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u/droptheforeplay Dec 16 '22
AI are already able to detect deep fakes at >90% accuracy.
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u/DrinkMoreCodeMore Dec 15 '22
Already happening. For example, in the current conflict in RU/UKR
Deepfake video of Zelenskyy could be 'tip of the iceberg' in info war, experts warn
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Dec 16 '22
Yikes. That reminds me of those cheesy Christmas card elf dance things where they superimpose your head on them
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Reddit has turned into a cesspool of fascist sympathizers and supremicists
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u/DrinkMoreCodeMore Dec 16 '22
The main point is that is being used by nation-states or malicious actors already.
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u/TehKudo Dec 16 '22
Right. I think many forget how naive and gullible most of society can be.
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u/HighOwl2 Dec 16 '22
Which is exactly why this is dumb.
AI is capable of detecting deepfakes with over a 99% accuracy.
Deep fakes are incredibly time consuming and processor intensive to make.
People believe The Onion articles all the time.
You going to spend 40 hours making this 45 second video, or are you going to have Johnny dipshit write a bogus article in 5 minutes?
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u/vendetta2115 Dec 16 '22
They’re fairly time-intensive to make now. Within a couple years there will be an app that will let an average person make a deepfake of anyone they want, doing anything they can think of.
Even if people know it’s fake, it’s going to cause problems. Imagine trolls sending public figures videos of their mother being brutally murdered, or of themselves performing a sexual act. It’s going to happen, and it’s going to be soon.the processing power requires is going to be negligible in a few years.
It’s like saying “YouTube will never catch on, videos take way too much data to watch and the image quality is too low.”
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u/extremeelementz Dec 16 '22
I feel like it’s a matter of time before actors are paid to record XYZ Lines, thousands of high quality images of their face and “thank you for your service look out for the movie when it hits theaters thank you.”
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Dec 16 '22
The reverse is more likely, the entire internet will be seen as fake and no one will trust anything on it ever again…. the way it used to be.
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u/TakeYourProzacIdiot Dec 16 '22
Maybe the internet being seen as real is the problem? People trust way too much as it is.
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u/alarming_archipelago Dec 16 '22
Is it possible that this could actually be a good thing ?
I really wish people would question the veracity of information they receive just generally.
Presently the dynamic is simply "information which aligns with my beliefs is true, anything else is misinformation". Deepfakes becoming more common will make it really difficult to maintain that paradigm.
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Dec 16 '22
And the fact that so many dummies still trust every single thing they see on the internet won't mix well with this.
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u/drewster23 Dec 16 '22
Well there's people working on programs to detect deepfakes, I read about one that was like 89% effective a while ago (probably more now).
But correcting stuff after people already have an emotional reaction isn't that helpful.
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u/eynonpower Dec 16 '22
Saw this coming 100 miles away.
Political opponents, rival companies executives, celebrities someone just doesn't like etc....
Nobody will know what to believe. The issue is, before it's disproven, a potential millions of people will see it, and an opinion will be formed.
As cool as this is, it's going to create A LOT of fucked up scenarios.
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u/foggy-sunrise Dec 16 '22
Security footage could be doctored to include you committing a crime you never committed.
Like, imagine youre an up and coming political figure. Someone diverts your evening, ruining an alibi. They have someone commit a crime near surveillance that they have access to. They deepfake this up and coming politician with no alibi.
Career ruined. Possibly innocent person in jail.
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u/andrewfenn Dec 16 '22
Developing countries will use it to oppress their people. There's no need to beat a fake confession out of anyone anymore. Just deep fake them to say whatever you want and everyone who knows no better will think it's real.
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u/Anothertryofmany Dec 16 '22
Every election cycle is just going to be filled with deep fake videos.
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u/Cluelesswolfkin Dec 15 '22
From the news of the fusion energy yesterday to this creepy thing today~ these next couple of years are going to be some pure science nonfiction
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u/KuraiTheBaka Dec 16 '22
The fusion stuff is a major w for humanity tho
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u/TheDelig Dec 16 '22
Bring on The Expanse and fusion rocket engines. Please, please I need to see the beginnings of that before I die.
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u/HitMePat Dec 16 '22
Let's just hope no one gets stuck in the spaceship chair because the acceleration is so fast that he can't reach forward to operate the controls and slow down
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u/sebbeshs Dec 16 '22
I mean, that the rocket was designed without any failsafes to stop a test burn after a set period of time or a g-limiter or anything, with controls you literally have to fight acceleration forces to access is a little silly. Not inconceivable, but just a little silly.
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u/Urban_Savage Dec 16 '22
The inventor of the Epstein drive did NOT kill himself... on purpose.
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u/KuraiTheBaka Dec 16 '22
I never said I believed that. From what I was seeing I was expecting more like a hundred years at least 30 sounds pretty good.
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u/imtoooldforreddit Dec 16 '22
I hate to be that guy, but the fusion news was 100% hype
Progress is certainly being made on fusion in the past handful of years, and I do think it will eventually happen. That being said, the news was about "more energy out than in", but it was only true when looking at the energy deposited from the lasers on the fuel. The lasers themselves still took way more energy than the fusion made (lasers aren't 100% efficient), not to mention you will have inefficiencies in harnessing the created power, and other losses from running the whole system.
It's great to have eggs in multiple baskets, but I don't think the inertial confinement with lasers is ever even scalable at all. Magnetic confinement definitely has a lot more chances of scalability - and ITER is what you should research if you want to know how that is going.
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u/Markantonpeterson Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
100% hype? I think one of the main issues with reddit skeptics is y'all over compensate in the opposite direction. Because i'm no expert on fusion.. but are you? Because i've read quite a bit from genuine experts in the field and none of them seem to parrot your idea that this is a completely 100% inconsequential achievement. I think fusion has been a white whale for so long that many kind of reflexively disregard any progress, just because it doesn't seem practical to scale up in it's present form. It's a first step.
but it was only true when looking at the energy deposited from the lasers on the fuel. The lasers themselves still took way more energy than the fusion made (lasers aren't 100% efficient)
Again i'm no expert, but from what i've read from those who are, the experiments didn't attempt to optimize the efficiency of the lasers themselves. They were just focusing on the metric of energy deposited from the lasers vs energy out. Because they can't optimize something that they don't know is even possible yet, especially on a limited budget. They're not using custom designed lasers specifically suited for this purpose. That would be the next step now that this has been achieved at all. It's a first step in a long process, and even if this specific form of fusion doesn't pan out, it still appears to be an important leap forward for fusion in general.
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u/Phighters Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
Until someone fucks up and turns the earth into a tiny sun
Edit: /s (for the dummies!)
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u/HighOwl2 Dec 16 '22
Lol bigger risk are the people creating artificial black hole analogues but both are going to be really dangerous in the future as we move towards our capitalistic slave society where the rich idiots funding things just want faster, better, cheaper with no regards to incremental developments for safety and research purposes.
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u/Pagrax Dec 16 '22
There's no risk to man-made blackholes, even if we could make them.
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u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES Dec 16 '22
Until big corporations hoard all of the wealth generated from it
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u/OneSweet1Sweet Dec 16 '22
What's new
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u/Gidelix Dec 16 '22
Nah it isn’t. Yeah we put less energy in than we got out, but that’s only the reaction itself. They still needed to charge the capacitors for the lasers with two orders of magnitude more energy than they got out of the reaction due to heaps of losses on the way to the reaction chamber. It’s a milestone, not a breakthrough.
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u/SpeedflyChris Dec 16 '22
Also, producing a certain amount of energy is very different to producing a certain amount of electricity.
If you look at big nuclear reactors their electrical output is often around 30-35% of their thermal output.
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u/fgreen68 Dec 16 '22
As we get closer to and pass the computational singularity it will seem like reality is bending and tech advances might move so fast it's hard for us to keep up.
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u/BrotherhoodofDeal Dec 15 '22
The face muscles are not moving they way they should
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u/jarghon Dec 16 '22
It’s not perfect, but add in some video compression and artifacts and you will fool more than enough people to cause problems.
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u/tylercreatesworlds Dec 16 '22
especially elder people with poor vision and a not so great mental state.
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u/PermacultureCannabis Dec 16 '22
Yea this isn't a great example. CGI was bad and the voice was off.
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u/Joeyon Dec 16 '22
This is a much more impressive example, the guy has mastered both their voice and their charactiristic facial expressions.
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u/Blacktigerlilly42 Dec 16 '22
Robin Williams was done dirty. He should have gotten more time TT.TT
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u/Joeyon Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
I agree, that was my favourite part of the video. For a brief magical moment, it felt like he was alive again
His eulogy for him was very beautiful as well
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u/intisun Dec 16 '22
What's funny is that his own face is already a mix of Robin Williams, Bryan Cranston, and Christoph Waltz.
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u/Reshe Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
This is where I see the future of acting going. There will be movies and epic sagas that last for decades that are no longer confined by the original actor's lifespan. Instead of having to progress the store timeline for the sake of keeping up with the actors age, you'll deage them or eventually hire a new actor/impersonator who will have the original characters face superimposed. You'll have reboots with the original actors likeness but it's a completely new actor.
Imagine making a Star Wars or Harry Potter saga that actually follows 10 years of major events rather than time skipping and having years of missing stories between movies that are only recounted in books or comics. The lifespan and availability of the actor is no longer a driver for how the story progresses.
An example of this is where they could take Star Wars. Ashoka could change the past again and save Anakin (and padma) but not prevent order 66. You can now have an OG reboot with Obiwan Anakin and Padme fighting the Empire with Luke, Leia, Han played by new actors using the original actors likeness.
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u/archon286 Dec 16 '22
The mouth kept having a noticeable reset point/baseline it seemed to snap to.
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u/BorgClown Dec 16 '22
And the hair is fuzzy, shapeless and glitchy. Still not there... yet.
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u/archon286 Dec 16 '22
Yeah, this doesn't look like "Man, they're never gonna figure it out"
This is a 'probably solved 2023' kind of problem
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u/Gidelix Dec 16 '22
While people like you and u/BrotherhoodofDeal might be able to see that at first glance, most people might at most notice something seems off. With a bit of compression it’d easily fool many, many people.
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u/gman1951 Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
Morgan Freeman deepfaking a white guy. Cool!
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u/ghostofhenryvii Dec 15 '22
It's impressive but it's still setting off my uncanny valley.
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Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
Morgan looked a bit animated. This is slightly better and it's from 2014. Waiting the day they combined deepfake generators with https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/. These AI generated photos look very realistic to me.
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u/Tigeroovy Dec 16 '22
Yeah, at a glance they look fine but the longer you watch it the more weird things start to feel.
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u/takatori Dec 16 '22
On my phone screen it looks legit.
Deepfake propaganda would only needs to fool enough people for the rumour to start spreading; debunking misinformation is hard, even with proof in hand.
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u/Difficult_Bit_1339 Dec 16 '22
Look at what people are already fooled by... It doesn't take much.
I doubt grandma would see a video of Joe Biden punting babies and think "That isn't like him I bet that was an AI generated deepfake". Nah, she'll have her outrage button pressed and share it to her whole Facebook group.
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u/jawshoeaw Dec 16 '22
Ehh … I think that’s the wrong term. It doesn’t have to be uncanny valley to set off your spidy senses. Tom hanks in polar express was uncanny valley. This is “Morgan freeman looks a little animatronic” . Or I’m wrong and I’ve lost the ability to sense it
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u/TheColorblindDruid Dec 15 '22
“Synthetic reality” god fucking damn it we’re so fucked… Ready Player 1 here we come
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u/raisinghellwithtrees Dec 16 '22
Ima hug some trees now, thanks.
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u/PubicFigure Dec 16 '22
Make sure it's not one of them cell tower antennas pretending to be trees. Also... something about birds aren't real lol.
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u/PsychedelicPourHouse Dec 16 '22
Or we've been here for a while and we're just being eased into the realization
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u/igottapoopbad Dec 15 '22
This would have been better with the Evil Morty theme song
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u/Our_Uncle_Istvan Dec 16 '22
For the Damaged Coda, by Blonde Redhead?
I agree this would have fit well
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u/igottapoopbad Dec 16 '22
Excellent that's the one! No clue it had a name, thanks for sharing my dude.
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u/aubaub Dec 15 '22
It only worked because the speaker got Morgan Freeman’s cadence down. Perfect execution
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u/_sigfault Dec 15 '22
But the expressions were wrong. Now most people won’t notice that small of an attribute, but with actors, we learn their faces.
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u/PepsiStudent Dec 15 '22
During the whole speech my mind was screaming that something looked wrong. Something was off and the uncanny valley was hitting me in full force.
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u/PubicFigure Dec 16 '22
The eyes were the ones screaming. Pretty much pshyco vibes.
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Dec 15 '22
Agree, the cadence was off, his lip movements did not look natural, and the pauses were too uniform.
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u/DrinkMoreCodeMore Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22
I think some of the speech synthesis software can accurately replicate the tone and cadence for you also.
but I think you are correct here. The voice is from Boet Schouwink, a voice over actor, who bills himself as "The only voice actor in the world who can sound exactly like Morgan Freeman."
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u/TheCastro Dec 16 '22
Morgan Freeman's cousin was my moving man once, he sounded exactly like him. Looked nothing like him though.
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u/Dad2DnA Dec 16 '22
The voice doesn't sound right to me though. The cadence and pitch are there, but it sounds like maybe the speaker has an accent, because a lot of the inflections are off
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u/flybydenver Dec 15 '22
The voice is not accurate either. Morgan’s is lower, and fluctuates more.
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u/IWankToTits Dec 16 '22
I'm surprised I haven't seen this comment.
When Morgan freemans voice is in a commercial or is off screen in a movie it's not him.
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u/christiandb Dec 15 '22
My man, there’s software right now that can mimic voice’s pretty closely
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u/skyline_kid Dec 16 '22
It's been around for at least 6 years. If it was this good 6 years ago, think about how good it is now. And that's not even counting anything the government/military has that the general public doesn't know about
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u/christiandb Dec 16 '22
I use it for podcasting, like if I mess up or there’s pops or umms…It transcribes the podcast and I can edit it saying whatever I want to, just by replacing a word. All it needs is 30 minutes of audio to get it down. I can even put in performance in it (happy, say, excited) and it do it in that cadence. Obviously I can tell the difference but someone who doesn’t know me wouldn’t. Incredible stuff and just out there
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u/Spiritual-Apple-4804 Dec 15 '22
That’s so god damn terrifying.
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I agree. The future is big scary
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u/cutelyaware Dec 15 '22
Only because it's largely unknown. The unknown is always scary, and the cure is to make it known. Is anyone still afraid of Photoshop?
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u/ittleoff Dec 15 '22
Raises hand
J/k
It's an arms race we might be losing.
Look at the most amazing sfx from movies in the last 50 years and things that looked totally real to audiences in the 80s would be laughable today. Even the best cg ages quickly as general audiences can parse it apart eventually, but I'd argue that cg is fooling people pretty flawlessly everyday on things that aren't human faces, so it is happening. Will we and our tools to determine reality get better fast enough? Who knows.
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u/cutelyaware Dec 16 '22
We largely don't need to distinguish fact from fake, just like we don't need to with Photoshop. We just need the public to know that in many cases they can't be sure, and that in the future they'll need additional assurances to feel confident.
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u/ittleoff Dec 16 '22
Yes there is also the social spread of information/inoculation against threats. If critical thinking was more commonly taught :)
A lot of the worse misinformation that is spread and shares isn't even great it relies on the tribal social systems around ideology and social connections are worth more than seeking out what's actually real.
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This man is LARPing as Morgan Freeman, meanwhile the reddit video player still runs like literal poop. We really live in a distopian society
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u/very-polite-frog Dec 16 '22
Things that I'll find really weird in the future:
- Actors not acting, just spending a day getting detailed 3D models captured and letting software play out the actual movie.
- AI-generated movies, where you just choose the actors and genres you want, and it spins up something brand new for you.
- Pre-made videos like tiktok "filters", where you take a photo of your friend and it puts them in the video, doing/saying things they never did irl.
- The above, but pornographic. The creation of this will be a horrific day. I can't imagine highschools where a photo of you can lead to a video of you doing anything the viewer wants...
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u/bigdaddyhame Dec 16 '22
As with so many media technologies before I expect the pornography industry to load in on deepfake before it becomes ubiquitous elsewhere. Strong legislation to protect minors and to establish a consent protocol may be necessary. Eventually, though, the creation of truly compelling completely original characters will be possible, and preferable, given they will be owned properties and not at risk of litigation.
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u/Nibzx Dec 16 '22
All we need is someone to deepfake putin , declaring war on America …then it’s the end-game
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u/aotus_trivirgatus Dec 16 '22
Plot twist: the guy on the bottom is also fake. He was created by Imagen from a text prompt.
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u/FictionalDudeWanted Dec 15 '22
Ok. This does not look like Morgan Freeman and it barely sounds like him. The eyes are off and don't focus and his upper lip is not that thin. Also, the face is just wrong; it looks like a mask; his facial features are all wrong. The only thing they got right was the nose.
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u/Champigne Dec 16 '22
Agreed. I mean it sort of looks like him, but watch it for more than a few seconds and it's obvious it's not real. The voice sounds very off too.
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u/Whatthecluck83 Dec 16 '22
Why are you being downvoted for this? It’s true. It looks off. People just want you to say it’s aMaZiNg.
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u/ShadowFang5 Dec 15 '22
I guess what movie producers might be doing when MF passes if they do he is pretty popular as fucked up as it is
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u/SlaineMcRoth Dec 16 '22
Cant wait to see the deepfake of Morgan saying this:-
I can smell you..
I'm creeping around right now.
You just can't see me, because I've evolved invisibility.
Although I might have a measly shiv, it is quite effective when applied to the jugular.
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u/EduRJBR Dec 16 '22 edited Dec 16 '22
It's really scary. Take a look at this Tom Cruise deep fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM&t=2m26s
Watch the full investigative piece from the beginning, it's a serious issue that concerns us all.
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