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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: 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.

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