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