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Thought it might be a fun exercise to see how little time it would take to create similar approximations of the original deepfakes using GenAI models.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/historic-deepfakes-with-ai

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That is interesting, although the originals are more convincing! Not least because (as you point out) the grain and blur of the original photos aren't matched.

Shame that CivitAI doesn't have a Soviet Union propaganda LoRA. :)

Though there is this:

https://civitai.com/models/877883/soviet-era-ussr-retro-futu...

I'll admit did not expect a wild Michael Phelps.

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