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Already done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

I think its good if a tech like this is publicly available. It will be used by comedians and satire outlets and over time raise awareness about possible fakes - pics/video or it did not happen... Well, no problem anymore ;-)

Can you imagine this for the next generation of cyber bullying? It could get super messy in high schools.

Alice broke up with Bob. Bob grabs the YouTube videos from Alice and makes video and voice profiles. Bob then posts a video of Alice saying how breaking up was her biggest mistake and how she misses <list of every sexual thing you can think of> because Bob does it all best.

That could end badly really easily.

Wow that's amazing. Combine the two and soon Hollywood stars will be redundant. Faceless session actors could just manipulate models of real people who've signed release forms with the vocal performed by similarly faceless vocal artists, or maybe even AI generated voices. Actors would lose their uniqueness and so end up being paid a pittance instead of being able to command the vast sums they can today. Another set of jobs soon to be made redundant by the rise of technology.

I wouldn't be comfortable watching a movie scene if I knew I was looking at computer-generated faces and voices.

Are you comfortable with Auto-Tune in music, not the t-pain / etc exaggerated style... the nearly universal application of Auto-Tune to recording and live performance to ensure a "consistent product", and "save on expensive studio time"?

Because the market appears to have spoken on that one and it said "meh, I don't care" with an solid shrug of indifference.

By the same logic, one can see artificially produced vocal performance combined with artificial overlaying of photorealistic 3d reproduction as a way to cost effectively maximise the performer and crew expenses, and ensure the consistency of a performance. The results may even be better than what they could have done with the real performer in the case of some attractive actors who are not very good at the acting part of being an actor/modern celebrity.

That said, I'll definitely miss the days people had to actually be able to act, but then again I also miss the days people used to actually be able to play an instrument well and or sing well if they wanted to be a famous musician.

Japan, as usual, is ahead of the game here! [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEaBqiLeCu0

Did you feel that way when seeing Grand Moff Tarkin on "Rogue One"?

https://www.wired.com/video/2017/02/how-rogue-one-recreated-...

Yes? I missed literally all his dialogue because he was so poorly animated I couldn't take my mind off it. So out of place and jarring.

Yep, fell right into the uncanny valley.

Have you seen the movie S1m0ne (2002)? I felt that it only scratched the surface of the topic (and the tech wasn't exactly at today's level), but it's otherwise pretty good.

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