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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 requerdanos on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:49PM (3 children)
The problem with that idea -- and I don't dispute it -- is that images frequently, in the overwhelming majority of cases, represent truth. A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. This means that that adjustment will probably be a long time coming.
Well, in terms of still images, that time here in terms of finding the images. Just purchase a magazine, and you'll find that it's actually just as easy to get false images as real ones.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday December 15 2017, @02:46AM (2 children)
Clearly, society is going to have to get over that idea. It's only been around for a couple centuries anyway.
Photgraphs have been subject to fakery almost the entire time anyway... and your presumption of "in the overwhelming majority of cases" been provably wrong since almost the first day that images went high-color digital. I spent most of my career writing image processing software, and we could make you smile when you weren't way back in 1985, not to mention do decent compositing of things that weren't in the original, change colors, etc. By 1995, just one decade later, we could make your head turn while changing expression in a video, turn you into a frog, etc.
From TFS:
Mostly to a society that is afraid of nudity and sexuality, and which gullibly swallows every bit of agitprop that comes down the line. Dare we hope this will help our neurotic society get over that? There's an awful lot of superstitious harumphing coming from pulpits and indoctrinated parents... it could take a while. We sure could use a lot less gullibility, too. Imagine if grade school was a place where everyone was taught that they actually needed solid, multiply-sourced evidence to make an assumption!
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday December 15 2017, @02:26PM (1 child)
By images, I don't mean only photographs, nor even principally photographs.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday December 15 2017, @02:42PM
Movies and videos are just sequences of still images. Altering moving image sequences in ways that are not easily detectable has been done for decades.