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The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by carapace »

ShamelessC wrote: post #32
dmd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What? It absolutely did!

I believe that this has been widespread on social media but do you know of any examples where reputable media outlets were fooled by a Photoshop? Not saying I don't believe you but I watch plenty of news and haven't personally seen much of this.

National Geographic moved the Pyramids for a cover photo in '82.

https://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/national-geographic/

Granted that's a case of a reputable media outlet fooling their readers by Photoshop, but it's arguably part of the problem.

Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by IncRnd »

shp0ngle wrote: post #36

This page opened not one, not two, not three, but four pop-ups that I needed to close to get to the article. 1. cookie acceptance 2. subscribe to mailing list 3. subscribe to technology review 4. some ad that overtook half of the screen Do they want people actually read this website?

I browse with js disabled, and I had none of those issues.

Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by IncRnd »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #31
PeterisP wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but aljazeera can sign a deepfake with their key just as readily as a real video, the signature does not ensure the realness of the video - it can only establish a part of it's "chain of sources".

But are you going to trust aljazeera's signature on a [potential] deepfake of an American politician as the only source of truth about whether that video is real?

That isn't what signing does. Signing attests to origin not authenticity.

Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by dirkt »

shp0ngle wrote: post #36

This page opened not one, not two, not three, but four pop-ups that I needed to close to get to the article. 1. cookie acceptance 2. subscribe to mailing list 3. subscribe to technology review 4. some ad that overtook half of the screen Do they want people actually read this website?

Thankfully, I can still read their article with javascript blocked (something that stops working on more and more sites), so I wasn't hit by that.

Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by amelius »

bonoboTP wrote: post #28
amelius wrote: post #21

Doppelgangers have existed since forever. I don't understand why this is such a big deal now. Here is a random agency where you can book real-life doppelgangers: http://www.lookalikes.info/

Handwritten codexes have existed for long, why is the printing press such a big deal?

A subversive actor only needs a lookalike of one or two people. And it's not like we can't duplicate a video of a doppelganger. So the analogy is lost on me.

Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by bitwize »

wruza wrote: post #13

I wait for cg chatacters to animate on a text script by using move/acting library, then it will be easy to shoot your own dynamic 3d movies by feeding a novel into the app and deepfaking the resulting cg scene. Combined with neural links, even not so good ones, that would be an entire new universe of... this term has yet to be invented. And you guys are thinking about deceitful politicians, as if they were relevant i…

Sounds like an enhanced XtraNormal. I can't wait to see the "MongoDB is Web Scale" expanded universe on the silver screen.

Re: The strange new world of being a deepfake actor

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Post by bsenftner »

This article is just an odd headline hook to discuss deep fakes. "Being" a deep fake actor is simply being the source media driving the VFX character. As an authoritative source on the topic, this is about as shallow as the rest of the pop culture articles on the topic - which is ankle deep.
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