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Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life

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Re: Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life

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naive question, won't any deep faked video leave some pretty readily detectable artifacts in the underlying video file?

If they are visible to the model, then these artifacts could also be generated.

I mean the model producing artifacts that wouldn't be found in the genuine article.

Re: Deepfakes: MIT brings Nixon's Apollo disaster speech to life

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So why don’t we have the same issue with Photoshopped images? It’s because everybody knows Photoshop exists and is skeptical about photographs. The more and more deep fakes get published—first as tech demos and then increasingly as jokes—the more people are going to adjust to how this works. Some people are going to be credulous but that’s just the human condition.

Yep, this is my reaction too. People are conflating two fundamentally different problems. One is having the ability to know what's real, the other is actually knowing . Ability is what interests me most. Faking this sort of content - a continuous, closeup shot of the President saying something - has basically never been possible before. If a total stranger had showed you this video in 1969, it would have been clearly…

I seriously think the best reaction to deepfake technology is the same as Photoshop: let a bunch of sarcastic teenagers pirate the software for it and use it to make jokes. Wise people will get wise to it quickly enough, and the gullible will always be with us.
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