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Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.
There's a video of Gal Gadot having sex with her stepbrother on the internet. But it's not really Gadot's body, and it's barely her own face. It's an approximation, face-swapped to look like she's performing in an existing incest-themed porn video.
[...] Like the Adobe tool that can make people say anything, and the Face2Face algorithm that can swap a recorded video with real-time face tracking, this new type of fake porn shows that we're on the verge of living in a world where it's trivially easy to fabricate believable videos of people doing and saying things they never did. Even having sex.
[...] The ease with which someone could do this is frightening. Aside from the technical challenge, all someone would need is enough images of your face, and many of us are already creating sprawling databases of our own faces: People around the world uploaded 24 billion selfies to Google Photos in 2015-2016.
Source: AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Fucked
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:56PM (2 children)
As with scarily many other things, this was accurately predicted in the 1986 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "The Running Man".
It also predicted reality TV (to be fair, so did 1970's THX-1138, but Running Man's was much more accurate), and using the internet to make travel reservations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:48PM
They actually depicted those computer generated scenes as actually computer generated scenes that looked realistic. They didn't have battles they pasted the faces on, they used the accurate body model/face images to create figures that were generated to realistically look like they were fighting.
That's different than pasting faces and morphing them, but it could be construed that they could have used anyones face on anyones body--without having to require bodies to act it out. They didn't suggest that was how they did it in the film, though -- it seemed to be all made up stuff based on what they wanted the audience to think.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 15 2017, @10:02AM
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