When are they going to use a Tom Cruise deepfake for Risky Business 2, which would pick up from where the first one ended? They could even hire Cruise to do the voice.
This deepfake of Tom Cruise discussing industrial cleaning is too good to be called uncanny
Detecting fake AI-generated faces by looking for irregular pupils
It used to be that if you wanted to create a fake persona online, you swiped a photo from some hapless person's Facebook page. These days, though, fakers can create "synthetic" images — using "general adversarial network" AI to generate fake faces that look awfully real. (Previously.) A group of academics has found an interesting… READ THE REST
AI firm pays people to use their faces in deepfaked corporate videos
A company called HourOne is paying people to "hire out their faces". HourOne will scan you talking and emoting, then use deepfake-style AI to create videos for its corporate customers, making the synthetic version of you say whatever the customer needs you to say. As MIT Tech Review reports: To create a character, Hour One… READ THE REST
Artist trains AI to generate new pictures of herself
Olesya Chernyavskaya is an artist who works with AI, and her new project is https://thisolesyadoesnotexist.glitch.me. As she writes … GAN generated photos of Olesya, a project by Olesya. If this Olesya doesn't exist, which one does?**To make this, I've trained a StyleGAN2-ADA model on 2445 real photos of me.&&& I really dig this idea. The "X… READ THE REST
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