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      228 months ago

      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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        I could see a few uses, but the biggest would probably be advertising. Tailored ads that look like they’re coming from a real person.

        Imagine Jake from State Farm addressing you personally about your insurance in an ad.

        Not that I endorse advertising, I’d like to see it all banned.

        I think it could be useful to humanise some things though and talking to a “person” AI in a video call might be more comfortable for some people wanting to do tasks such as say navigate my mobile phone carriers shitty AI help system.

        Really any sort of AI assistant device could benefit from a human imprint.

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          18 months ago

          Deepfakes are being used to personalize political messages in India, here’s a fun article on it which also points out an instance all the way back from 2020: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/20/deepfake-democracy-behind-the-ai-trickery-shaping-indias-2024-elections

          It also mentions using deepfakes to target constituencies speaking different languages, to defame opposing parties, and even creating deepfakes to cast doubt on legitimate videos:

          Ahead of the state election in November, the caller requested that Jadoun alter a problematic but authentic video of their candidate – ​​whose party he did not disclose – to make a realistic deepfake. The aim: to claim that the original was a deepfake, and the deepfake the original.

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            18 months ago

            In Australia they handed out fliers designed to look like an official government department, and targeted Chinese speaking communities who might not notice the difference.

            Dodgy politicians will use anything, the solution is to go after them for doing it rather than focusing on the method because they’ll just find another method if they don’t get stopped.

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          128 months ago

          how can you film someone who is dead?

          Hot take: don’t? They’re dead, leave them dead. Rewrite and reshoot if you really have to.

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          58 months ago

          We’ve already recreated dead actors or older actors whole cloth with VFX. Plus it still seems like a niche use case for something that can be done by VFX artists that can also do way more

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              18 months ago

              They can also democratize the ability to develop solutions to non-developers,

              This is insane. If you don’t understand everything a piece of code is doing, publishing it is insanely reckless. You absolutely must know how to code to publish acceptable software.

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          48 months ago

          Gotta crank up that dystopia meter.

          This is slowly moving toward having Content On Demand. Imagine being able to prompt your content app for a movie/series you want to watch, and it just makes it and streams it to you.

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          48 months ago

          this is so dystopian. Imagine spending your career honing your skill as an actor, dying and then having a computer replace you with just a photograph as a source. How is that honoring an actor??

          An actual, practical example is generating video for VR chats like Apple has somewhat tried to do with their headset. Rather than using the cameras/sensors to generate and animate a 3d model based on you, it could do something more like this, albeit 2d.

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          18 months ago

          If they use the speech tech on top of it, you wouldn’t even know if you were talking to the person you think you are.

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        28 months ago

        Maybe a historical biopic in the style of photos of the time. Like take pictures of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, etc., use voice actors plus modern reenactors for background characters, and build it into a whole movie.

        I dunno, I’m probably reaching.