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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.
Microsoft: I know this will only be used for evil, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna pass up on the hype-boost to my market share.
Every other big corp: same!
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
Can we maybe stop making these? XD
This coming from the guy who turned himself into a fly for fun
It’s not his fault earth girls are easy.
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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
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.
Imagine your dead relative selling you extended warranty for your vehicle.
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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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.
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.
Avatars for ugly people who are good at games and want to get into streaming
Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?
They developed an ai to name all future ai. Ironically it is unnamed.
There are a lot of flying vehicles named after birds who famously plummet to the ground at breakneck speeds.
No, like the crispbread.
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.
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.
It was midichlorians all along.
You’re a Jedi 'Arry!
Imma wot?
I like your optimism where this doesn’t result in making everything worse.
I was actually discussing this very idea with my brother, who went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Orrrlandooooo recently and while he enjoyed himself, said it felt like not much is new in theme parks nowadays. Adding in AI driven pictures you could actually talk to might spice it up.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Orrrlandooooo
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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These vids are just off enough that I think doing a bunch of mushrooms and watching them would be a deeply haunting experience
So essentially the music video for Drugs by Ratatat.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
music video for Drugs by Ratatat
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
The first video her bottom teeth shift around.
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.
This is turning into some Mistborn shit. “Don’t trust writing not written on metal”
“You shot that man, citizen. Here is video evidence. Put your hands against the wall.” - and more coming to you soon!
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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).
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.
It’s pretty wild that this is the tech being produced by the trillion dollar company who has already been granted a patent on creating digital resurrections of dead people from the data they left behind.
So we now already have LLMs that could take what you said and say new things that seem like what you would have said, take a voice sample of you and create new voice synthesis of that text where it sounds a lot like you were actually saying it, and can take a photo of you and make a video where you legit look like you are saying that voice sample with facial expressions and all.
And this could be done for anyone who has a social media profile with a few dozen text posts, a profile photo, and a 15 second sample of their voice.
I really don’t get how every single person isn’t just having a daily existential crisis questioning the nature of their present reality given what’s coming.
Do people just think the current trends aren’t going to continue, or just don’t think about the notion that what happens in the future could in fact have been their own nonlocal past?
It reminds me of a millennia old saying by a group that were claiming we were copies in the images of original humans: “you do not know how to examine the present moment.”
Edit - bonus saying on the topic: “When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!”
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uh, are graphics cards supposed to be 2500 bucks? (I play boardgames)
Crypto did unfortunate things to the space.
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Freddie, this is your mom. Look all I want for my birthday is for you to please start using teams new. It’s so much better than teams classic. I alread… Microsoft already installed it for you. Okay honey? And could you also start using a microsoft.com account so you can get financially hooked like all the Gmail users? It’s pretty smart. Don’t you want to be smart like Jonny? Tata!
One photo? That’s incredible.
Yeah. Incredibly horrific.
Yes I hate what AI is becoming capable of. Last year everyone was laughing at the shitty fingers, but were quickly moving past that. I’m concerned that in the near future it will be hard to tell truth from fiction.
Since it’s trained on celebrities, can it do ugly people or would it try to make them prettier in animation?
The teeth change sizes, which is kinda weird, but probably fixable.
It’s not too hard to notice for an up close face shot, but if it was farther away it might be hard - the intonation and facial expressions are spot on. They should use this to re-do all the digital faces in Star Wars.
The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.
how important this type of research
I hope they also figure a way to find the bad actors who might use their tools for harmful purposes. You can’t just create something for “research” purposes like this and not find a way to stop bad actors using these for harmful purposes.
Paranoia vibes starting in 3, 2, 1…
The pores don’t stretch, but the teeth and irises sure do!
I’m sure they will fix that before you know it.
