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Re:Launch HN: D-ID (YC S17) – Protecting Identities from Fac... by yablak on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:25PM (#14850480)
You're entering an active and mainly successful research field:

https://nips.cc/Conferences/2016/Schedule?showEvent=6213

TL;DR: if a human eye can differentiate, GANs can learn to differentiate given enough training data.

however, it's unlikely that gov't regulations will catch up with technology like this for 10+ years so you can probably sell your algorithms to give companies legal protection.

Re:Launch HN: D-ID (YC S17) – Protecting Identities from Fac... by doh on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:28PM (#14851080)
Wouldn't be sure about that. Plenty of companies will catch up quickly especially ones like Palantir.