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

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#92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Older people are less likely to invest in high risk, high yield.

Older people are less likely to have their entire personas and private lives fully documented on social media.

Younger people really should consider this point.

Personally, I don't use streaming video outside of work and there are no videos of me on youtube or any social media to train a model on even if someone wanted to.

My mother in her 70s doesn't even have a debit card. She thinks the idea is ridiculous and insecure. She writes paper checks and that is it. To put her account number on an electronic device would be completely unthinkable.

While the average older person might be more easily confused by social engineering the attack surface for an electronic scam is so tiny compared to the average younger person.

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

#93
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Well, I understand how it works, and I still find it freaking amazing. The quality is... impressive. On the flip side, the ability to deep-fake a face in real time on a video call is now accessible to pretty much every script kiddie out there. In other words, you can no longer trust what your eyes see on video calls. We live in interesting times.

It's interesting, because the subconscious ability of the mind to identify discrepancies is incredible (even if we ignore that feeling we get about something). The feel of counterfeit bills, the color someone choose to wear, the sound that doesn't quite fit. I think deep-fakes are mostly a danger to people without a lot of source material for their minds to compare against. You could trick me into believing I was tak…

The key take-away, for me, is that I should "keep my guard up" on any video call about money or other important matters, even if other participants on the call are colleagues, friends, or relatives. There are no guarantees of authenticity anymore. My new motto for video calls is "trust by verify."

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

#94

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.

In person interactions like this CIA mask expert tricking a US president? https://spyscape.com/article/master-of-disguise-how-the-cias...

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

#95

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.

If I had to dig way, way down to the bottom of the barrel for use cases, it would be very funny if everyone showed up to a meeting wearing one of the attendee's faces.

Don't they already?

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

#96
post #55

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.

One legitimate one I could imagine is if people want to pursue a career in the adult film industry but without having to reveal their true face (not with a celebrity face of course)

I have been thinking about this comment and if it isn't a celebrity then just someone you know?

If not someone you know then just a random stranger?

Not that I can think of a better use case but it is telling if this is the best we can do.

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

#97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For many (notably mastercard and VISA), when they say “ethical” they really mean anything but porn.

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

And backed off from blocking Onlyfans.

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

#98
post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the README.md seems straightforward enough.

Where is the repo? Stuck in the landing page loop here and no github link I could find.

Yeah all of the page's links just go to the same page, except the "experience live cam" link at the top. That goes to this:

https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

Took me multiple minutes to find too.

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

#99
Huh. Thought politics was dead with VASA-1 [1], EMO [2], and Animate / Outfit anyone [3], so we could clothe people in anything, animate them any way we want, put them anywhere, and have them say anything to the public. "Thoughts and prayers victims..."

However, this really nails that pretty dead itself. Wonder if I can:

- Sit at home in pajamas.

- Change my face to Sec. of Def. Lloyd Austin.

- Put myself in a nice suit from TV

- Call the White House with autotune voice pretending to be going in for surgery yet again because of life threatening complications

- Send the entire military into conniptions (maybe mention some dangerous news I need to warn them about before the emergency rush surgery starts)

Edit: This [4] might be an Animate / Outfit anyone image... It's difficult to tell. Even with huge amounts of experience, the quality has become too elevated, too quick to check 1000's of depressing murder images for fakes because it might be a BS heart string story. All stories on the WWW are now, "that might be fake, unless I can personally check." Al-arabiya upvoted casinos and lotteries for muslims recently. [5] "they all might be fake."

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

[2] https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/

[3] https://humanaigc.github.io/animate-anyone/

[4] https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/https%3A%2F%2Fcloudfront-...

[5] https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/07/29/uae-grant...

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

#100

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.

It's fun for goofing around. Imagine a conference call with your buddies and each one comes with a different deepfake. Kind of like a costume party but on camera.
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