Re:Family fun with deepfakes
by matt_wulfeck on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:29PM
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My point was that they don’t lead to legality issues. This has been the case since the invention of the digital camera. No matter how convincing digital images (now video) has seemed, they aren’t “proof” in the eyes of the court because they can be faked. There’s nothing new here.
Captain disillusion on youtube has a great channel covering all of this. Here's an example of a fake lightning video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPRtCW5sRk
Deepfakes has made it so the average user, with no knowledge of Aftereffects / composition, to basically run a python script so long as they have high res images + several angles / expressions of the target user. That same folder set of images can be replicated in multiple scenes with just the cost being GPU rendering time
Deepfake videos can also have a much higher resolution than "viral videos" with aftereffects to fake effects.
Deepfaking also leads to a lot of legality issues as well.
TL;DR deepfakes does make faking videos much cheaper, higher resolution, and easier now