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posted by mrpg on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the ohoh dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by crafoo on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:57PM (12 children)

    by crafoo (6639) on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:57PM (#609777)

    Even having sex.

    Even having sex!? How HORRIBLE! OK that was sarcasm. I guess I can think of many much worse things.

    Some people say frightening, I say exciting.
    Some people say terrifying implications, I say welcome it. No one gave you a guarantee things would never change.

    This is going to change how we regard video and images as sources of "fact". And you know what? Great. They've always been manipulated, particularly the context and what is not shown: cropping images, editing video (what happened 10 secs prior to this "horrible" event?). This is going to change how we interact with others. This will change how we identify ourselves and how we verify identification. This is going to change fashion.

    Interesting times.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:08PM (5 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:08PM (#609785)

    Our political system isn't fucked up enough by all the lies, we need more capability to produce fake pictures that are near impossible to debunk.
    At least, the guys working for Stalin had to work hard, to remove people from photos. Now we except idiot voters to decide whether they should vote for the candidate who did clearly get a blowjob from an underage whaleshark on top of K2?

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:31PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:31PM (#609980) Journal

      Our political system isn't fucked up enough by all the lies, we need more capability to produce fake pictures that are near impossible to debunk.

      It will happen soon anyway. Search for coping mechanisms already.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday December 15 2017, @01:33AM (3 children)

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday December 15 2017, @01:33AM (#610030) Journal

      But it will go the other way. Right now people see an image and think "oh it must be true, how else could there be a photo / video of it?" Especially older people, who remember a time when such things could not be easily or convincingly manipulated.

      But if it becomes so easy to fake anything, maybe in time (over generations, maybe?) people will switch their default reaction to "I bet it's faked." I think a lot of younger people react this way already. A little more cynicism in the general population could solve a lot of problems.

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 15 2017, @01:39AM (2 children)

        by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 15 2017, @01:39AM (#610033)

        It's hard enough to catch the crooks. I'm not looking forward to a generalization of the Trump-style "if I say it didn't happen, all your evidence has to be fake".

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday December 15 2017, @01:54AM (1 child)

          by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Friday December 15 2017, @01:54AM (#610040) Journal

          But we're there already. Anything can already be faked, and if it can't be (or if the fakers just can't be bothered) then loudly and shamelessly denying the obvious truth seems to be a remarkably effective alternative.

          If publicising this technology can inoculate the public with a shot of skepticism then I say bring it on.

          • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday December 15 2017, @02:05AM

            by bob_super (1357) on Friday December 15 2017, @02:05AM (#610042)

            "Trust nothing, not even the ballot box (whether I win or not, they cheated), except Me."
            Where is that Daily Show segment about African Dictators?

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by HiThere on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:08PM (4 children)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 14 2017, @06:08PM (#609786) Journal

    The problem is that people make snap judgments on unreliable information. Most people still believe what they're told by whichever new site they watch. Often they'll deny it, but watch their actions later, and they actually believe it when they aren't consciously being cautious.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:27PM (3 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:27PM (#609979)

      Nothing really new here, people also believe what they read, or are told...

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:36PM (2 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:36PM (#609986) Journal

        If you have to believe something (ie can't avoid the issue), what happens when multiple alt-realities are presented to your attention?

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        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday December 15 2017, @04:14AM (1 child)

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday December 15 2017, @04:14AM (#610091)

          Well, it's funny, but we're getting back to a place where human witnesses might start carrying more weight again.

          There will be a certain amount of "digital evidence veracity" weighting, but with digital it can always be forged perfectly, so again it comes down to whether or not you trust the humans who vouch for the digital evidence.

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          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 15 2017, @04:33AM

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 15 2017, @04:33AM (#610096) Journal

            Easier to threaten a witness with perjury charges than an unknown VR-artist, isn't it?

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:14PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:14PM (#609818)

    They've always been manipulated, particularly the context and what is not shown: cropping images, editing video (what happened 10 secs prior to this "horrible" event?). This is going to change how we interact with others. This will change how we identify ourselves and how we verify identification. This is going to change fashion.

    There's an interesting book written by Arthur C. Clarke a while ago called "Light of Other Days" which is in this vein: in it, someone figures out how to invent a device that creates wormholes where you can view any arbitrary point in the past at any point in space, and watch it like watching TV. So very quickly, people are able to dial in anything they want to look at: a significant early Beatles concert, the shooting of JFK, what their neighbors are doing in their bedroom, what Jesus did, etc. So of course this causes profound changes in society, because privacy is basically non-existent, and also anything that happened in the past is now open for inspection, instead of relying on the official historical record. Religions of course don't do well (did Joseph Smith really meet an angel and find some golden plates in upstate NY?), corrupt politicians can't hide their dirty dealings any more, etc.