The Specter of Deep Fakes?

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 years, 9 months ago to Technology
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I posted a warning about Deep Fakes a while back...they are getting better by the day.

ALERT!...new addition: Is this a Deep Fake? or Deep Throat???

Watch this! Ctrl Shift Face...entertaining but when you think about it...scary

You could one day be the "Ctrl" face that gets shifted.


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  • Posted by exceller 4 years, 9 months ago
    It only indicates one thing: anything and everything is possible.

    What it also means is that the left is going to use it to promote their agenda.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks...that was real close. Went on the other site but it's still too busy.
    I can just imagine someone recording the voice they want saying what they wanted and claiming it to be real as a joke but it still goes round as if it was.
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  • Posted by CTYankee44 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No doubt about it. Someday the valley will be traversed. after all, we accept digitized versions of analog films.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Great observation...do you think someone will figure out how to avoid the valley all together?
    In a Deep Political Fake...there would be no need for that, I think, cause the whole thing will be generated from scratch...or is that just no possible?
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  • Posted by CTYankee44 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That come down to a question of believability. Back in the 90s Scientific American magazine published a 'photo' of Marilyn Monroe hanging on the shoulder of Abraham Lincoln. It was a perfect fake. But it was also not believable.

    At some point in the not too distant future, cameras will need to incorporate dual-key watermarks into the images to prevent future abuses. Will older images continue to emerge? Yes. But eventually the fact that we age will be sufficient to reintroduce the aspect of deniability.

    The thing that struck me most viscerally in he above video clip was the 'Uncanny Valley' which it almost crossed, but just managed to fall short of.

    There were a few moments when I kept asking myself if that dude is a Tom Cruise look-alike. But the majority of the time the image emitted the revulsion that the uncanny valley represents.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good idea but what about the trillions of memes, photos and videos already out there?
    That is where all that was needed for the posted video was gotten...everything that was already out there.

    Just a question.
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  • Posted by CTYankee44 4 years, 9 months ago
    A simple & direct way to thwart deep fakes is to incorporate a digital watermark into the original and actual footage.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And lo it came to pass, that Divine Dino the Prophet pointed into infinity and sayeth unto those who'd listen, "Verily, verily, me dino sayeth unto you, study this well."
    At the end of the day, the lesson be-ith that you had better. Yes, at the end of the day.
    Expect a quiz,
    Nononono! Not necessarily at the end of the day.
    "At the end of the day" is an overused expression me dino has heard talking heads on Fox News run into the ground.
    To say "At the end of the day bla bla bla etc." is to say, "So in the summation of all things bla bla bla etc."
    That is not a quiz question.
    But the provided link is a hint~~
    https://www.infinitiusa.com/vehicles/...
    At the end of the day, me Divine dino the Prophet would not be caught dead in one of those things.
    More of a Honda man.
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  • Posted by lrshultis 4 years, 9 months ago
    I Thought about this happening a couple of decades ago, but was looking forward to maybe a new Fred Astaire type movie. It never accured to me that such a technology could be used to harm others.
    Here is a good article about the technology:

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Beam it live stream... which means, one of us (not literally us.) has to be present at one of his freak out events...pity the poor soul that would suffer.
    Maybe turn the event into a "Laugh-in"?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino doth pondered thine reply, went hither yon to go figure me own
    response and,after great deliberation, me dino tarried back sayeth the
    following unto you and what I sayeth be a yep. Despite other variables,
    the hard part was choosing between that or 10-4 good buddy.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would imagine the copyright for a Marilyn Monroe digital image would be pretty expensive. Maybe they'll bring back Elvis!
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 4 years, 9 months ago
    Think about this one: Joe Biden says all of those gaffes that you see him spouting on TV are faked.Given this technology gets to be better known, how do you hold any politician responsible, as they can deny any thing they said that was stupid was faked? They could also use the technology to revise mistakes in their speeches. It will certainly create further confusion and doubt.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is where the Tech came from...you had to know that someone would use it for evil. I am sure googie is all up for this.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am sure someone will. However, we can tell if it's fake...just takes some time but the prob. is, the deep fakes will be released last min. and it will probable be too late by the time we find out.

    That would be a shock to have to Re-Vote for a Presidential election cause someone screwed the pooch.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A couple of the latest Star Wars movies has used digital tech to resurrect a deceased Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and Peter Cushing, who played the first Death Star Commander, ( and appeared in countless Brit Hammer horror flicks during the 60s and the 70s) in Rogue One, the last Star Wars anything me with my tinnitus last
    saw the first time in a theater.
    On the big screen me dino could tell Peter Cushing, who dirt napped 1994, was a digital creation in 2016's Rogue One, but on a smaller screen not so much. Note that along with the theatrical dramatic effect of his digital image of at first looking the other way when first shown~~
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uKtU...
    Me dino reckons it won't take long for digital special effects technicians to get copies of living and dead people down to perfection.
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