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Deepfake Salvador Dalí takes selfies with museum visitors

Metanoia Prime

Metanoia Prime

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Oct 26, 2017
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Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí once said in an interview, "I believe in general in death, but in the death of Dali, absolutely not." Now, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, has worked to fulfill the painter's prophecy by bringing him back to life — with a deepfake.

The exhibition, called Dalí Lives, was made in collaboration with the ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (GS&P), which made a life-size re-creation of Dalí using the machine learning-powered video editing technique. Using archival footage from interviews, GS&P pulled over 6,000 frames and used 1,000 hours of machine learning to train the AI algorithm on Dalí's face. His facial expressions were then imposed over an actor with Dalí's body proportions, and quotes from his interviews and letters were synced with a voice actor who could mimic his unique accent, a mix of French, Spanish, and English.
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Deepfake videos are usually associated with fake celebrity porn, the dangers that come from fake news, or the possibility of making political figures say volatile things. The technology is easily available for anyone to use. GS&P technical director Nathan Shipley, says he pulled the code from GitHub. Shipley believes that Dalí Lives may be the first time a cultural institution has used deepfakes for artistic purposes. It's hard to think of another artist who would be better suited for this than Dalí.
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Via: The Verge

This is both amazing and frightening.

But yeah, I want a pic.
 
Grettir_the_Swole

Grettir_the_Swole

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Nov 1, 2017
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Out of all the museums I have visited in my life without a doubt the Dali is one of the best. You rarely see creativity and attention like this from a museum collection as specific as the Dali's.
 
scottbeowulf

scottbeowulf

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Oct 27, 2017
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This is really cool. I like this tech being used in this way. Teaching people about his art, outlook, life etc. Not like bringing back Tupac for a concert or something.
 
Castor Archer

Castor Archer

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Jan 8, 2019
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scottbeowulf said:
This is really cool. I like this tech being used in this way. Teaching people about his art, outlook, life etc. Not like bringing back Tupac for a concert or something.
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Yeah I've never considered this tech being used for something like this. A real life "Night at the Museum" with historical figures talking about their history and how it's impacted today/how today is different is such a cool thought.
 
DJ_Lae

DJ_Lae

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Oct 27, 2017
6,871
Edmonton
That's a really cool use of the tech.

Also looks better than most of the Scarlett Johansson stuff you see these days.
 
Acorn

Acorn

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Oct 25, 2017
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Reminds me that Robin Williams specifically put he didn't want put in any ads or anything after death. Because of that Audrey Hepburn advert a few years ago.
 
Extra Sauce

Extra Sauce

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Oct 27, 2017
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If you think we live in a post-truth world now, wait until deepfake tech reaches its full potential. Shit absolutely terrifies me.
 
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