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Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

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Re: Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

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Post by lgl »

cheez wrote: post #91
teraflop wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a minor plot point in Vernor Vinge's excellent SF novel A Fire Upon the Deep . One of the premises of the novel's universe is that computational power is generally absurdly plentiful, but communications bandwidth over interstellar distances is not. Most communications are in plain text (modeled after USENET) but in some cases, "evocations" are used to extrapolate video and audio from an ultra-compressed data…

A main premise of the Fear the Sky trilogy as well but solved a different way. Machines representing various political factions from the home planet are uploaded with AI that mimics them emotionally and politically for all intents and purposes. I really enjoyed this book.

+1 recommendation for this trilogy

Re: Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

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Post by jcims »

rkagerer wrote: post #98

I wanted to play with this, but ran into an error upon starting a Miniconda prompt after a fresh install of Miniconda3 on Win7: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'conda' It's triggered by this line in conda-script.py: from conda.cli import main Same thing happened when I tried installing Anaconda instead. Any suggestions? ---- EDIT: To get this to work, I had to remove a PYTHONHOME environment variable lingering f…

I had a different set of challenges on Windows 10

- Miniconda installer suggests you don't add it to the path, so i didn't but install_windows.bat assumes you do

- There is something with windows permissions happening with the installer, where it can't access the network and can't run the conda activation process. I didn't spend any time figuring this out, i just execute dthe command from the (short) batch file one by one and it worked fine.

- i had to add 'fomm' to PYTHONPAT in order for it to find sync_batchnorm.

Re: Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

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Post by jessaustin »

sytelus wrote: post #6

This is the best application of deep fakes I have seen! If someone was selling deep fakes for StarTrek/StarWar, it would be hot cake among crowd here, except for too many Kirk and Picards might be seen in meetings.

More meetings should definitely start with arguments about who gets to use which avatar. "I only took Riker because my boss is on the call!" "Geordi is already taken; you have to be Wesley!"

Re: Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

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Post by jessaustin »

rglullis wrote: post #87

81 comments at the moment and not one single mention of Infinite Jest?! How disappointing...

I read that over 20 years ago; could you explain the relevance? deepfakes or something similar would have fit right in with "the entertainment" etc., but I don't recall that happening...

In general I find that adding an oblique reference is more appreciated on HN than simply name-dropping a particular fictional work.

Re: Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls

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Post by klondike_klive »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #47
aidos wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that’s what the vocoder was created for. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder

Mentioned in Jim Akhaleli's (sp?) "Revolutions" episode about the smart-phone currently on Netflix (my lad was watching it, really good for juniors or non-technical people IMO).

Almost right. It's Jim Al-Khalili. Great show.
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