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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 JoeMerchant on Friday December 15 2017, @04:25AM
PTSD is very real, because comes from a very real experience. Nobody is claiming PTSD from watching "Saving Private Ryan," (without having experienced the war themselves) or playing video games, but the drone pilots in Nellis are getting it because they are doing real damage on the other side of the world with their video linked systems. The reality of it matters, and the sooner people clue into the fact that "convincing effects" are not reality, the sooner people can stop suffering trauma from fake images.
As for film rating boards - the first image that comes to my mind is from "The Aviator" with Howard Hughes defending his footage of Jane Russel's cleavage as not being any less prurient than existing approved footage. The film board has to think of the children, or whatever, right? I agree that children should be sheltered from images of sex and violence until they can get some understanding of what they are seeing - but I think parents are far more traumatized than their children when their children see depictions of sex, and apparently the film boards in the USA think that imagery bloodier and more graphic that a real tour in Vietnam is suitable for children 13 and over.
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