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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: 4, Interesting) by terrab0t on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:58PM (2 children)
I remember when the video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking a crack pipe surfaced. He tried to dismiss it as a fake, doctored video. At the time, that was ridiculous. It would have cost a lot of money and time to make something that convincing. There would have been enough people involved that the truth would have come out.
When this kind of editing technology progresses a bit more people caught in leaked video scandals will make the same claim and we will have no way to know if they are lying.
Case in point, Donald Trump recently implied his infamous Access Hollywood off camera audio recording may be fake. That Adobe voice synthesis technology existed last year when the recording was released. Someone actually could have faked that recording. Someone could also have made a fake recording of Hillary Clinton saying all kinds of horrible things to either hit the other party or show that you can’t trust these things.
What happens when networks like CNN stop editing and misinterpreting footage [youtu.be] and start fabricating their own?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 15 2017, @12:47AM
What do you image it will happen? Fox&friends will step up their competition.
Free market, baby, oh yeah! 'Cause free market trumps democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 15 2017, @10:14AM
http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/cnn-fake-protest-video-accusations-denies-donald-trump-jr-muslim-london-attack-watch-you-tube/
And of course not forgetting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
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