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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: 1) by Gault.Drakkor on Thursday December 14 2017, @07:30PM (2 children)
As the cost of synthetic creation and manipulation becomes cheaper...
What this will probably come to is the content+geo-loc+time must be crypto signed to be considered real. You can't prevent world read+edit. But we should be able to optionally have cryptographically signed media(signed at creation time). I know that there is water marks and other ways to tie content to a creation device, but those are not under the control of the user.
Of course this would require people to actually fact check before assuming truth. We know how well that happens, but the easier it is to fact check, the better.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:57PM
Nice concept, but any such thing can be forged, and most people don't even come close to understanding the likelihood or ease with which that can happen.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:27PM
With a backdoored algorithm, right?
Cause other algos may constitute a crime if exercised by lowly citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford