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Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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post #24

I don't usually pay attention to things like this, but I have a younger sister who uses Snapchat. She used this filter and the output was essentially a perfect photo of our brother, but with longer hair. I couldn't help but be impressed.

What about the brother -> sister mapping?

Judging from my family's group chat that also works really well.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

#42
post #32

It's fantastic to see how far this tech came in such a short time. It's also scary, because soon it will be very dificult to trust anything you see in video. What now demands a big CGI budget, will be possible to do with a simple App.

There's still tells. 80% realism is still far enough away to be unrealistic. There's lots of places it breaks. I think soon is still at least 20 years away. And 20 years away in technology is basically never. Reality is very very detailed and we've been optimized in our evolution to get to that fine grit quickly.

It doesn't entirely apply, but here's an article (one of many) on telling deep fakes: https://www.howtogeek.com/341469/how-to-spot-a-deep-fake-fac...

Also this short one on playing with a robo-call: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread988484/pg1

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

#47
post #13

Physical gender stereotypes? The differences in physical appearance, like the shape of the bones in your face and the fact some people have penises and other people have vaginas, caused by activation of the SRY gene (the sex determinism gene), are not social constructs.

Physical gender stereotypes are things like hair length/style, whether makeup is applied, eyebrow grooming etc--all things that these apps are doing. These are not determined by sex. They are physical gender stereotypes, and are social constructs. Apps like these are upholding those stereotypes. I'll put it another way. If apps like these were framed with a right-wing narrative of "this is what men should look like"…

The shape of the jawline differing between men and women is not a stereotype.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

#48

Did the post get deleted? Getting a 404.

Looks like it. https://web.archive.org/web/20190513170015/https://blog.evja...

It's a shame it got deleted. From the web archive, it looks like an interesting, in-depth exploration of the filter.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

#49
post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like it. https://web.archive.org/web/20190513170015/https://blog.evja...

I wonder if Snap offered him a job to take it down.

If anything, it is free advertising. Not sure why they would be bothered.
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