Original URL: As fake videos become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing.
All it takes is a single selfie.
From that static image, an algorithm can quickly create a moving, lifelike avatar: a video not recorded, but fabricated from whole cloth by software.
With more time, Pinscreen, the Los Angeles start-up behind the technology, believes its renderings will become so accurate they will defy reality.
"You won't be able to tell," said Hao Li, a leading researcher on computer-generated video at USC who founded Pinscreen in 2015. "With further deep-learning advancements, especially on mobile devices, we'll be able to produce completely photoreal avatars in real time."
[...] Now imagine a phony video of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un announcing a missile strike. The White House would have mere minutes to determine whether the clip was genuine and whether it warranted a retaliatory strike.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by pkrasimirov on Tuesday October 09 2018, @12:44PM (3 children)
From the TFA:
Realistic enough for me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:16PM
lol: that's like saying "you can't see me. I am invisible."
duh, obviously the server hosting their "(geo locked) award-winning" news is totally accesible and visible from europe?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday October 09 2018, @01:59PM
>we are doing unspeakable things with the info we collect from the visitors of our site, so we can't show it in EU anymore, sucks to be you.
FTFY
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(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Tuesday October 09 2018, @07:58PM
So in other words, they don't comply with the GDPR. Best viewed with a pi-hole.
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