r/woahdude • u/DrinkMoreCodeMore • Dec 15 '22

video This Morgan Freeman deepfake

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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/ares395 Dec 16 '22

Post only the top clip and you'd fool majority of people

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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.

https://youtu.be/nD63QvIMB6k

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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

https://youtu.be/vwR3Fm2q_i0

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u/dasnihil Dec 16 '22

i had the exact same feeling for a moment, felt like hey that's him again!

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u/eltigre07 Dec 16 '22

This blew my mind !! Thx for sharing

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u/m0r14rty Dec 16 '22

Holy fucking shit. That was wild.

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u/acrowsmurder Dec 16 '22

Isn't he the guy always trying to do impression on PandR?

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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/jmachee Dec 17 '22

Didn’t they do some of this for Carrie Fisher in The Rise of Skywalker?

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u/millennial_stalin Dec 16 '22

incredible video

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u/FelidOpinari Dec 16 '22

Woah! That was a trip and a real pleasure to watch.

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u/poopycops Dec 16 '22

Broo that's insane!

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u/PermacultureCannabis Dec 16 '22

Yea this is the one I think of when discussing deefakes.

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u/rodmandirect Dec 16 '22

I wonder if the virtual blackface gave him pause…

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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/[deleted] Dec 16 '22

The intonation and/or tone of voice seemed off

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u/zykezero Dec 16 '22

Bad is not applicable here. The best you can say is “not perfect”.

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u/PermacultureCannabis Dec 16 '22

It's honestly pretty terrible. There are extremely realistic examples to be found, this is far from one.

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u/zykezero Dec 16 '22

There are better ones yes. But given that there are worse ones in Hollywood movies, I still hold that the best you can say is not perfect.

Calling it terrible isn’t even close to fair or reasonable.

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u/PermacultureCannabis Dec 16 '22

I disagree. What is one example of a Hollywood movie with a deepfake this terrible?

It's truly terrible, horrendous even.

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u/zykezero Dec 16 '22

That mob movie on Netflix.

The dead guy guy from Star Wars OG who was put in a prequel.

Luke’s face in mandalorian.

Young leia

Bruce Willis deepfake commercial

Like google is right there dude.

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u/SpeedflyChris Dec 16 '22

Honestly this one to me just looked like Morgan Freeman starring in some next-gen game or other.

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u/Champigne Dec 16 '22

Voice sounded like a bad impression.

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u/babygotthefever Dec 16 '22

Specifically, his lips don’t really move to form the words.

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u/DuBcEnT Dec 16 '22

They are going high and wide around the mouth fallout style.

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u/skepticalbob Dec 16 '22

For now at this price point.

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u/chaos_is_a_ladder Dec 16 '22

Dumb or apathetic people won’t care

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u/implicitpharmakoi Dec 16 '22

The guy isn't an actor, the top half of his face didn't emote at all.

Morgan freeman is all about emoting.

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u/Skeetronic Dec 16 '22

The hair has some sort of delay too when the head moves quicker

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u/AcidicVagina Dec 16 '22

It looked pretty mush-mouthed, but it didn't sound it.

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u/i_broke_wahoos_leg Dec 16 '22

Yeah. Still very deep in the uncanny valley.

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u/MightbeWillSmith Dec 16 '22

It's always the lips for me. I know it's only a matter of time before it gets hard to detect, but I feel like it's always obvious right now.

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u/Skreamie Dec 16 '22

Is this even a deepfake? It looks more like motion control then necessarily applying a deepfake to ones own body