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How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

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Re: How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos

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One application I imagine for this is a future of game development similar to the movie inception where an "architect" designs the layout and setting and then all the details are filled in ad hoc by the computers "imagination".

Today its faces that feel familiar but aren't real. Tomorrow its whole cities that feel familiar but aren't real. The cities are filled with people you swear you've seen before. Perhaps the details are tailored to you personally based on the corpus of photos you've posted online.

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One application I imagine for this is a future of game development similar to the movie inception where an "architect" designs the layout and setting and then all the details are filled in ad hoc by the computers "imagination". Today its faces that feel familiar but aren't real. Tomorrow its whole cities that feel familiar but aren't real. The cities are filled with people you swear you've seen before. Perhaps the de…

This is happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea57XERywM&index=6&list=PLc...

"Narrative Dungeon Design"

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Scary to think where this will be in 10 years. Perhaps even video evidence will be hard to believe any more. How do you convict someone if this technology is mature?

There was a post here a few days ago on amateurs (people who had never even touched python before, let alone tensorflow) who were using deep learning to generate fake celebrity porn. The results are actually pretty believable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040463

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Scary to think where this will be in 10 years. Perhaps even video evidence will be hard to believe any more. How do you convict someone if this technology is mature?

And or how do you prove someone's innocence if you can generate a believable, fake, crime video.

Supporting counter evidence will become that much more important.

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