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Faking it
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Era of Fake Video has begun.
The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem — well — quaint.
If you think Fake News is bad news, wait until you see what’s coming next care of cutting edge technologies’ often all too ready manipulation of video.
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NO PEEKING !!!
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In dank corners of the internet, it is possible to find actors and actresses from Game of Thrones or Harry Potter engaged in all manner of sex acts.
Or at least to the world the carnal figures look to be those actors and actresses as the faces in the videos are indeed theirs.
This application application of artificial intelligence has almost seamlessly stitched familiar visages into pornographic scenes by swapping the face anyone onto the body of an adult video performer.
Hey, don’t blame me!
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In turn, the genre is thus one of the cruelest, most invasive forms of identity theft invented in the internet era.
At least one of the worse so far, that is.
At the core of the cruelty is the acuity of the technology as casual observers cannot easily detect the hoax.
This development, which has been the subject of much hand-wringing in the tech press, is the work of a programmer who goes by the nom de hack “deepfakes.”
One of deepfake’s compatriots told Vice’s Motherboard site in January that he intends to democratize his (pernicious, ed.) work.
Anonymous
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Even worse, the technology is merely a beta version of impending much more ambitious video manipulation software.
The longer term plan is to further refine the process by further automating it such that most anyone could incorporate — for a few examples — the disembodied head of a crush, an ex or a co-worker into a realistic looking pornographic clip with just a relatively few simple steps.
A surprisingly few steps.
A surprisingly wicked few steps.
That as well as also readily easy enough manipulate the featured act.
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And as academic and commercial software labs are developing ever more sophisticated tools – algorithms which map facial expressions and mimic voices with ever greater precision – for non-pornographic purposes, fake videos will continue to acquire an ever greater illusion of realism.
Source: The Era of Fake Video Begins
