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Re:Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird by tjr225 on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:19PM (#24306710)
This doesn't look very convincing.

Also, I didn't know you could run python in google drive.

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Re:Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird by soared on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:26PM (#24306789)
>There’s a telltale wonkiness to the faces in the videos made with this algorithm, which makes its handiwork easy to recognize; that is part of the deepfakes’ humor. These imperfections—and the surrealist quality

Part of most meme's style is purposeful bad photo editing, so the poor deepfake quality is part of the format.

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Re:Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird by gwern on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:39PM (#24309089)
Not Drive, Colab. Colab is a VM service. (Although you can mount your Google Drive, and many Colab users will.)
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