Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to artificial intelligence.
Back in December, the unsavory hobby of a Reddit user by the name of deepfakes became a new centerpiece of artificial intelligence debate, specifically around the newfound ability to face-swap celebrities and porn stars. Using software, deepfakes was able to take the face of famous actresses and swap them with those of porn actresses, letting him live out a fantasy of watching famous people have sex. Now, just two months later, easy-to-use applications have sprouted up with the ability to perform this real-time editing with even more ease, according to Motherboard, which also first reported about deepfakes late last year.
Thanks to AI training techniques like machine learning, scores of photographs can be fed into an algorithm that creates convincing human masks to replace the faces of anyone on video, all by using lookalike data and letting the software train itself to improve over time. In this case, users are putting famous actresses into existing adult films. According to deepfakes, this required some extensive computer science know-how. But Motherboard reports that one user in the burgeoning community of pornographic celebrity face swapping has created a user-friendly app that basically anyone can use.
The same technique can be used for non-pornographic purposes, such as inserting Nicolas Cage's face into classic movies. One user also "outperformed" the Princess Leia scene at the end of Disney's Rogue One (you be the judge, original footage is at the top of the GIF).
The machines are learning.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 26 2018, @10:59PM (5 children)
Young man put the face of Lee Harvey Oswald on his own image. His own grandmother swears that it's her grandson's photograph. His parents know better, so they won't swear to it, but he says that he has fooled them in the past.
I can't say how easy it might be to make convincing fakes, but obviously, it's not terribly difficult.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 26 2018, @11:12PM
People might be fooled more often by fake video than fake photos.
The quality of many of these is rough around the edges, while others look more convincing. And you can expect both the algorithms and the hardware to get better.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 26 2018, @11:39PM (3 children)
I've always thought it would be cool to write a javascript in which the shadow of Oswald's nose rotates clockwise in the manner of a Sun Dial.
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(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday January 26 2018, @11:53PM (1 child)
You just opened me up to a whole new world of conspiracy theory that I had not imagined
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:28AM
Jack Ruby must have had quite a serious reason to motivate him to kill Oswald.
Did he have any kids? Perhaps there was a threat on their lives.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday January 27 2018, @12:02AM
Entirely CGI UFO sighting video. [wired.com]
Yesterday it took effort. Tomorrow it will take a script.
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