deep learning
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Deepfakes Maybe Not Quite the Political Apocalypse We Feared, MIT Researchers Find
Ever since we’ve seen deepfakes cropping up across porn, e-commerce, and literal bank robberies, there’s always been concern that this same tech could be used to interfere with future elections. Well, according to one new study, that might be tougher than we thought. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have put out a…
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Deepfaking Genitalia Into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan
Another intriguing and lucrative use case exploring the potential of deepfake technology: dicks, unblurred. On Monday, police in Japan arrested a man who admitted to sharing porn that was deepfaked to clarify pixellated genitalia. According to The Mainichi, he sold over 2,500 video files for 11 million yen (roughly AU$128,700). The paper adds that this appears…
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Warner Bros. Lets Anyone Be in Its Reminiscence Trailer With a Cool New Deepfake Generator
In general, I am wary of deepfakes, primarily because they can be used for evil and be kind of creepy. There are exceptions, such as the YouTuber that made a way better deepfake version of a young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian than Lucasfilm’s CG division did. Recently, Warner Bros. debuted an impressive deepfake marketing…
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Facebook Unveils AI Model That Copies Text Style From Images Using a Single Word
The past few years have taught us that our faces, voices, and lips can be copied and replicated with artificial intelligence. Now, an AI model created by Facebook researchers can imitate, edit, and replace handwritten and scene text using just a single word in an image.