Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by IAmWorried on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:11PM (#26307747)

I think this could extend to major public figures, but offers no recourse to the average joe who doesn't have 100 hours of talking footage online. Deepfakes require a lot of data to produce. Anyone who doesn't have this much data, you could reliably assume the content is real.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by inglor_cz on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:16PM (#26307810)

"Deepfakes require a lot of data to produce."

I wonder if this is going to hold, especially as 4K video is becoming the norm.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by belval on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:01PM (#26309709)

It won't, as with everything in DL the models are becoming much better at training on a large amount of data and fine-tuning on very little. I am pretty sure in 1-2 years we will have semi-convincing one-shot learning deepfakes models with 5-10 pictures you could get on the person's Facebook profile.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by nomdep on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:38PM (#26310031)

"Deepfakes require a lot of data to produce."

Are you sure? https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

The result is not perfect but it could be with a few more photos.

And realistic synthetic voice generation is not so far away in the future.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by throwaway316943 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:59AM (#26313977)

> 100 hours of talking video

You mean like zoom recordings? Yeah nobody has those.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by IAmWorried on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:49PM (#26318043)

Haha, good point. I didn't even really think of that.

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