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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 GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday December 15 2017, @01:25AM
More to the point, once it becomes widely known and understood that this is possible, nobody will give a shit. OK, there will be a period of a few years where some people think it's funny and others think it's shocking to post your co-worker's / boss' / ex-girlfriend / ex-boyfriend / stalker victim's face onto a porn star, and I'm sure we can all look forward to the subsequent rash of outraged articles and bullied teenagers and apps getting banned and ill-considered reactionary legislation and all the rest of it. However once the novelty wears off people will just kind of move on. Nobody will pay any attention to anybody who says "oh hey, look, here's a video of [whoever] doing three guys and a goat" any more than they'd pay attention to someone who has cut a celebrity's face out of a lifestyle magazine and glued it into a porn magazine. It will just look kind of sad.
The existence of his capability might even provide cover for those people whose genuine sex videos *do* end up online. "Oh that? No, that's not me, it's just someone has edited my face into a porno. Well yes that does look like my bedroom, they must have edited that too. Isn't it amazing what they can do with technology now?"