Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
- 6 years ago
Here Come the Fake Videos, Too
Like Derpfakes, the man would not give me his full name,
and instead went by his first initial, N. He said he had created FakeApp as a creative experiment and was chagrined to see Reddit’s deepfake community use it for ill.
“I joined the community based around these algorithms when it was very small (less than 500 people),” he wrote, “and as soon as I saw the results I knew this was brilliant tech
that should be accessible to anyone who wants to play around with it.
Next, we took several hundred photos of my face, and gathered images of Mr. Gosling’s face using a clip from a recent TV appearance.
“I’ve given it a lot of thought,” he said, “and ultimately I’ve decided I don’t think it’s right
to condemn the technology itself — which can of course be used for many purposes, good and bad.”
FakeApp is somewhat finicky and hard to use, but it’s easy to imagine it improving quickly.
A post titled “3D face reconstruction for additional angles” sat next to videos with titles like “(Not) Olivia Wilde playing with herself.”
Some users on Reddit defended deepfakes and blamed the media for overhyping their potential for harm.
Artificial intelligence video tools make it relatively easy to put one person’s face on another person’s body with few traces of manipulation.
About eight hours later, after our model had been sufficiently trained, Mark used FakeApp to finish putting my face on Mr. Gosling’s body.
Like Derpfakes, the man would not give me his full name,
and instead went by his first initial, N. He said he had created FakeApp as a creative experiment and was chagrined to see Reddit’s deepfake community use it for ill.
“I joined the community based around these algorithms when it was very small (less than 500 people),” he wrote, “and as soon as I saw the results I knew this was brilliant tech
that should be accessible to anyone who wants to play around with it.
Next, we took several hundred photos of my face, and gathered images of Mr. Gosling’s face using a clip from a recent TV appearance.
“I’ve given it a lot of thought,” he said, “and ultimately I’ve decided I don’t think it’s right
to condemn the technology itself — which can of course be used for many purposes, good and bad.”
FakeApp is somewhat finicky and hard to use, but it’s easy to imagine it improving quickly.
A post titled “3D face reconstruction for additional angles” sat next to videos with titles like “(Not) Olivia Wilde playing with herself.”
Some users on Reddit defended deepfakes and blamed the media for overhyping their potential for harm.
Artificial intelligence video tools make it relatively easy to put one person’s face on another person’s body with few traces of manipulation.
About eight hours later, after our model had been sufficiently trained, Mark used FakeApp to finish putting my face on Mr. Gosling’s body.