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Oct 27, 2017
2,490
Henderson, NV
The scary part is that people barely read now. Heated arguments and serious social and political divisions are formed from half-assed information and misplaced passion. Can you imagine a world where something like video evidence, which is currently the great arbiter, is completely unusable because of tech like this? Can you imagine how many people could conceivably be accused of crimes that they didn't commit, or crowds swayed, or just people manipulated in a way that dwarfs the recent Facebook betrayal? Can you imagine such ramifications because of the ease of tech like this?

I remember when R.Kelly had his infamous video and claimed, "it wasn't me" and everyone laughed because the level of CGI it would've taken to pull off something like that required WETA/ILM level mastery. Now? When some guy can pull this off in his basement, you actually won't be able to trust ANYTHING that you see. Video evidence will be inadmissible in courts. Or, worse, totally used and manipulated to terrible effect.

In a news world where speed is prioritized over the accuracy, I just can't imagine what would happen a media outlet pulled a compelling deep fake.

Frightening stuff. Pandora's Box description is super appropriate.
 
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DavidDesu

Banned
Oct 29, 2017
5,718
Glasgow, Scotland
The scary part is that people barely read now. Heated arguments and serious social and political divisions are formed from half-assed information and misplaced passion. Can you imagine a world where something like video evidence, which is currently the great arbiter, is completely unusable because of tech like this? Can you imagine how many people could conceivably be accused of crimes that they didn't commit, or crowds swayed, or just people manipulated in a way that dwarfs the recent Facebook betrayal? Can you imagine such ramifications because of the ease of tech like this?

I remember when R.Kelly had his infamous video and claimed, "it wasn't me" and everyone laughed because the level of CGI it would've taken to pull off something like that required WETA/ILM level mastery. Now? When some guy can pull this off in his basement, you actually won't be able to trust ANYTHING that you see. Video evidence will be inadmissible in courts. Or, worse, totally used and manipulated to terrible effect.

In a news world where speed is prioritized over the accuracy, I just can't imagine what would happen a media outlet pulled a compelling deep fake.

Frightening stuff. Pandora's Box description is super appropriate.
Yeah it's not far off the Running Man where the shows producers doctor footage to show the opposite of the real events to frame Schwarzenegger's character. The future is now indeed. It could get messy.
 

BAD

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,565
USA
There's some weird moments where at angles it doesn't really do much to replace the faces but this was neat. Didn't make me want a remake at all though.
 

Quantum Leap

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
5,988
California
I saw a deepfake porn video of Kylie Jenner the other day and was blown away, I had seen shitty fake celebrity porn videos before but never a deepfake.
 

Gohlad

Avenger
Oct 28, 2017
1,072
How long until modders deepfake the Avengers from the upcoming Avengers Game with the actually Marvel actors?
 

Raguel

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
2,275
The scary part is that people barely read now. Heated arguments and serious social and political divisions are formed from half-assed information and misplaced passion. Can you imagine a world where something like video evidence, which is currently the great arbiter, is completely unusable because of tech like this? Can you imagine how many people could conceivably be accused of crimes that they didn't commit, or crowds swayed, or just people manipulated in a way that dwarfs the recent Facebook betrayal? Can you imagine such ramifications because of the ease of tech like this?

I remember when R.Kelly had his infamous video and claimed, "it wasn't me" and everyone laughed because the level of CGI it would've taken to pull off something like that required WETA/ILM level mastery. Now? When some guy can pull this off in his basement, you actually won't be able to trust ANYTHING that you see. Video evidence will be inadmissible in courts. Or, worse, totally used and manipulated to terrible effect.

In a news world where speed is prioritized over the accuracy, I just can't imagine what would happen a media outlet pulled a compelling deep fake.

Frightening stuff. Pandora's Box description is super appropriate.
Yeah. This tech is dangerous and deeply unsettling. We need to shut it down fast
 

T-800

Member
Oct 30, 2017
1,138
How will filmmaking look like in the future?

I could see a future where actors just record hundreds of hours of videomaterial of their faces in different situations and displaying different emotions which then can be used to as a source material for deepfakes
Basically shoot a film with random replacement actors and then select a famous actor from a database to replace them with in the endproduct

Actors? Pffft. How about the option to put yourself in the movie?
 

Priapus

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,150
Has this been used in porn yet?
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Stinkles

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
20,459
I like the ones with Jim Carrey in The Shining

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The famous bat scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZRUZzZPGto

I would be so up for a remake of this with Jim Carrey if nobody is going to deepfake the entire movie with him in it.

That channel I linked has a lot of crazy videos. The latest one is Gollum in Trainspotting lol.

Still better and scarier than the hard working but thankless sap from Doctor Sleep.
 

Stinkles

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
20,459
Yeah. This tech is dangerous and deeply unsettling. We need to shut it down fast

what if people could have an RF encryption of sorts to validate video or public appearances? Now rich people have an advantage if money is involved either way.

and the anonymous and disingenuous have a way to skip responsibility or create alibis.
 

GDGF

Member
Oct 26, 2017
6,289
How will filmmaking look like in the future?

I could see a future where actors just record hundreds of hours of videomaterial of their faces in different situations and displaying different emotions which then can be used to as a source material for deepfakes
Basically shoot a film with random replacement actors and then select a famous actor from a database to replace them with in the endproduct

Congrats, Soothsayer!