Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
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Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
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Can we maybe stop making these? XD
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Like what even is a legitimate use case for these? It just seems tailor made for either misinformation or pointless memes, neither of which seem like a good sales pitch
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Say you’re a movie studio director making the next big movie with some big name celebs. Filming is in progress, and one of the actor dies in the most on brand way possible. Everyone decides that the film must be finished to honor the actor’s legacy, but how can you film someone who is dead? This technology would enable you to create footage the VFX team can use to lay over top of stand-in actor’s face and provide a better experience for your audience.
I’m sure there are other uses, but this one pops to mind as a very legitimate use case that could’ve benefited from the technology.
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Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?
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This is why I don't post my picture online and I never talk to anyone ever, while hiding my head inside a nylon stocking (unrelated).
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I mean, I know it's scary, but I'll admit it is impressive, even when I watched it with jaded "every day is another AI breakthrough" exhaustion.
The subtle face movements, eyebrow expression, everything seems to correctly infer how the face would articulate those specific words. When you think of how many decades something like this would be in the uncanny valley even with a team of trained people hand -tweaking the image and video, and this is doing it better in nearly every way, automatically, with just an image? Insane.
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A long time ago, someone from a not free country wrote a white paper on why we should care about privacy, because written words can be edited to level false accusations (charges) with false evidence. This chills me to the bone.
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This is turning into some Mistborn shit. “Don’t trust writing not written on metal”
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One photo? That’s incredible.
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Yeah. Incredibly horrific.
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Combine this with an LLM with speech-to-text input and we could create a talking paintings like in harry potter movies. Heck, hang it on a door and hook it with smart lock to recreate the dorm doors in harry potter and see if people can trick it to open the door.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Harry Potter wasn't a fantasy movie, it was a SciFi and we just didn't know it.
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“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus”
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Also Microsoft.....
Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy
I know the genie's out of the bottle, but goddamn.