It's hard for them to whip out fully fake clips, but it's easy for them to sample Disney, or SyFy, or news coverage, or comedy sketches that look very much like real interviews, etc. and cut them into a short clip to publish on social media.

I have real time voice to voice that runs on low end CPUs. You can impersonate celebrities and cartoon characters.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zRvJEGJjTpKvvzel-J0agh3fKBn...

I'm integrating it into a "Snapchat filter" type app with lightweight social features just as a means to bring it to market and hopefully attract Facebook or Snapchat or Tencent into buying it. I'm building it to sell, essentially.

I need capital so I can fund my real ambitious start-up of end to end computational filmmaking. Graph-based story language, light field camera optics, tracking and localization in prerendered environments, content-aware shaders, real time storyboard population and automated editing, posture estimation and mistake correction...

With patent protection, I think it could unseat Disney and make more money than they do with Marvel and Star Wars.

I need a lot of capital to build my lab. Optics (good sensors and glass), a modest studio with rigging and tracking set up for experiments, and a handful of engineers.

One of the effects of deepfakes is that it makes the inherent value of simulating reality to the utmost detail vanish over time. Our whole mass entertainment industry is built by worshipping the quality of simulation (for example, those flashy VFX effects, realistic landscapes, and Lapunzel's long hair.) Right now, those details are achieved by hundreds of animators, motion capture actors, and technicians, and by having huge render/simulation farms. When virtual realism becomes easily replicable (by regurgitating previous data through a deep learning pipeline), the old values of simulating reality will soon vanish over time, and therefore the indie artists would be able to compete in a fairer level than the entertainment monoliths.

However, one of the problems of deep learning is that you need to have a good dataset first, but how are you going to build one? Well, the big game companies wouldn't reveal their models and textures that easily. For indie artists to utilize this technology, there needs to be a centralized community project built around gathering and preprocessing data, rather than waiting for someone like Adobe or Autodesk do it.