Post by davidsf on Jun 7, 2020 5:33:39 GMT -8
I don’t know, this “Deep Fake” Technology is still new, but it’s an election year, so...
remember when ABC News used a video of John McCain on an airplane talking to reporters, but the words he spoke were not his?
State Farm used it in this commercial: Nothing that reporter said was actually said:
You can read about Deepfakes in This article from Forbes
remember when ABC News used a video of John McCain on an airplane talking to reporters, but the words he spoke were not his?
State Farm used it in this commercial: Nothing that reporter said was actually said:
You can read about Deepfakes in This article from Forbes
Several deepfake videos have gone viral recently, giving millions around the world their first taste of this new technology: President Obama using an expletive to describe President Trump, Mark Zuckerberg admitting that Facebook's true goal is to manipulate and exploit its users, Bill Hader morphing into Al Pacino on a late-night talk show.
The amount of deepfake content online is growing at a rapid rate. At the beginning of 2019 there were 7,964 deepfake videos online, according to a report from startup Deeptrace; just nine months later, that figure had jumped to 14,678. It has no doubt continued to balloon since then.
While impressive, today's deepfake technology is still not quite to parity with authentic video footage—by looking closely, it is typically possible to tell that a video is a deepfake. But the technology is improving at a breathtaking pace. Experts predict that deepfakes will be indistinguishable from real images before long.
The amount of deepfake content online is growing at a rapid rate. At the beginning of 2019 there were 7,964 deepfake videos online, according to a report from startup Deeptrace; just nine months later, that figure had jumped to 14,678. It has no doubt continued to balloon since then.
While impressive, today's deepfake technology is still not quite to parity with authentic video footage—by looking closely, it is typically possible to tell that a video is a deepfake. But the technology is improving at a breathtaking pace. Experts predict that deepfakes will be indistinguishable from real images before long.
