Deepfakes for dancing: AI to fake those dance moves you always wanted

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22 points·sahin-boydas··6 comments

While these results certainly have drawbacks, it does set a prescient as to how we can use video evidence.

In ten or twenty years, can video evidence be considered legally binding? If someone else can make someone else do virtually any movement, how do we know that someone else committed a crime? With voice and facial synthesis, virtually anyone can do anything. Photo evidence can be easily faked (via photoshop), videos can be faked, audio can be faked; do we continue to create methods of identity verification that are continually complex?

Video and audio recording evidence is already considered low grade evidence exactly for these reasons in criminal cases where there is enough reason to believe it could've been faked.

I don't want to sound like a luddite but as an older person, I can't see how we get through this "truthy" phase.

I don't get how they enforced the temporal coherence criterion on the GAN. How do they evaluate temporal coherence?

Man. It’s sad to me to see that the people who are building these technologies do it in some bland institutional setting.

The potential here is absolutely world changing. Give an intelligence agency this tech and itll be more deadly than a gun. Who cares if the presidential urine tape is a myth or not when it can be made real?

If you’re building something that can tear the world apart, you should be compensated in a similar fashion. You should be able to do your research in a retreat in the alps, in absolute luxury and comfort.

Ah yes, because what we need more of is exorbitant reward for building things more deadly than guns that tear the world apart.

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