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Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool

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Post by FredPret »

carapace wrote: post #76
FredPret wrote: post #62

I think AI + deepfakes will increase the value pressure on in-person interactions - ie, the only time when you can (for now) believe your eyes and ears. I wonder how politics can be transacted in such an environment. Old-timey first-past-the-post might be the optimal solution if you can't trust anything from out of earshot.

> I wonder how politics can be transacted in such an environment. Codes and seals predate computers (by quite a bit.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_(cryptography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(emblem)

Those are relevant to the workings of government.

The process of politicians debating and getting elected is going to have to be much more local. Just look at how easy it is to spread misinformation now.

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Post by lancesells »

highcountess wrote: post #75
roamerz wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not so much Visa/MC but rather the payment processors that are at issue here.

There were several efforts to restrict the people’s right ability to marshal resistance to tyranny and Visa/MC was very much involved with that even though they were not the only ones.

When did this happen?

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Post by bee_rider »

roamerz wrote: post #49
hackernewds wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that seems like an overreaction. the card processors ban much more questionable trades - such as weapons and terrorism financing

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In general I think payment processor are not required to associate with anybody. The government (in the US at least) is limited in their ability to prevent you from buying guns and making porn (a form of speech), but they can’t make people do the transactions with you; the right to have somebody process payments for you is not constitutionally protected.

But I’d be at least curious (as a non-lawyer) if there could be issues around discriminating against pregnant women in the US, since abortion is a service that is only used by them.

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

cess11 wrote: post #58
hackernewds wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that seems like an overreaction. the card processors ban much more questionable trades - such as weapons and terrorism financing

That's because the state is forcing them to.

The state has never stopped the funding of terrorism.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/us-taxpayers-may-funding-ta...

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Post by doctorhandshake »

reaperducer wrote: post #33
doctorhandshake wrote: post #12

This makes me think there could be use for a very very (very) easy-to-use tool that allows two parties to choose and store a secret (verbally pronounceable) passphrase known only to the two of them, for use in situations in which it might be necessary to ‘sign’ a video chat or audio conversation in which one party’s identity might be in doubt.

a very very (very) easy-to-use tool that allows two parties to choose and store a secret (verbally pronounceable) passphrase known only to the two of them So, quite literally, a "password" in its original pre-internet meaning.

Haha yes. Maybe a secret knock?

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Post by muixoozie »

nope1000 wrote: post #10

Technically impressive but I fail to see a good use case for it that's not related to propaganda or scam and the website doesn't seem to list one either.

Only things I can think of:

- streamer goofing around.

- Perhaps something like this could be used to map your facial expressions onto video game characters in real-time.

- could take tictok style social media to the next level of absurdity. make me into a meme. Ghana says goodbye etc.

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Post by dangsux »

sebastiennight wrote: post #44
doctorhandshake wrote: post #12

This makes me think there could be use for a very very (very) easy-to-use tool that allows two parties to choose and store a secret (verbally pronounceable) passphrase known only to the two of them, for use in situations in which it might be necessary to ‘sign’ a video chat or audio conversation in which one party’s identity might be in doubt.

I've seen people try and share such a "password" verbally on a video call. With recording and live transcribing on. From free-tier extensions with wobbly privacy policies. This won't work. I've resorted to using OTP apps with family and coworkers.

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Post by ithkuil »

tdeck wrote: post #68
rnimmer wrote: post #6

FTA: "Ethical Use Safeguards Built-in checks prevent processing of inappropriate content, ensuring legal and ethical use." I see it claims to not process content with nudity, but all of the examples on the website demo impersonation of famous people, including at least one politician (JD Vance). I'm struggling to understand what the authors consider 'ethical' deepfaking? What is the intended 'ethical' use case here?…

The answer is that anyone working on deepfakes doean't care much about ethics or they wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

OTOH now that we know the technology is possible, would you prefer that only some actors had perhaps the ability to do that. or perhaps not and having the lingering doubt that anything you see could be deep fake but there could always be plausible deniability that it would be too hard to actually carry it out.

If the technology is actually made widely available that just reveals that the Pandora box was actually already open

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Post by RafelMri »

Interesting... This project is built upon "GFPGAN v1.4" (https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN) and "FaceSwap Extension - Automatic 1111 - Proof of Concept" (https://github.com/revolverocelot1/-webui-faceswap-unlocked). The GFPGAN project is grounded on its own in the paper "GFP-GAN: Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior" by Wang et al. (https://xinntao.github.io/projects/gfpgan)
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