Deepfakes

[_subgenius]

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/d ... 202910584/


When a flood of fake celebrity pornography generated by artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology surfaced on the internet earlier this year, most tech platforms were quick to ban these so-called deepfake clips. Folks at the adult entertainment company Naughty America, on the other hand, began looking into ways to make money with deepfakes.

This week, the company is launching a new service that allows customers to commission their own deepfake clips, which can include superimposing their own faces onto the bodies of porn performers, or incorporating porn stars into different environments. “We see customization and personalization as the future,”


when this conclusion is certainly aimed at the porn industry (context), it certainly hits broader targets.

In one instance, the company swapped out the face of porn performer Zoey Monroe with that of fellow performer Blair Williams (adult content, not safe for work).

In a separate clip, it showed how it can take a porn performer, isolate her from the background, and place her into another environment — something that fans could use to commission a scene with their favorite performer starring in their home, explained Hronopoulos. “I can put people in your bedroom.”

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Deepfakes essentially use A.I. deep learning technology to train algorithms on how a person looks like, which can then be used to recreate that likeness within the context of another video. The results can be indistinguishable from unedited videos, especially if there is enough image data to properly train these algorithms.
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I'm not concerned, are you?

[_cinepro]

What does the world end up looking like when we can be shown videos of politicians (or anyone) doing or saying almost anything?

[_subgenius]

What does the world end up looking like when we can be shown videos of politicians (or anyone) doing or saying almost anything?

I would speculate that it would become contemptuous of such things...the inevitable result of Twitter feeds. I am sure there is a solid argument about perception here...not a novel argument, but a solid one.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Is this some sort of poisoning the well when Trump piss tapes come out, or that Manafort's rapey history is finally reported by Fox news?

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

For the unitiated. Manafort, and in addition to the war crimes (Ukrainian blood money, Google it), is an abusive sex addict who taped his brain-injured wife being gangbanged by black guys.

No, that's not an exaggeration. That's literally what his own daughters said:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikTSNcVMAAp6zQ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikThzAVAAE9L4l.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikTOjXU0AEtSpK.jpg

https://mobile.Twitter.com/HiIamMikeC/s ... 5826686976

This is the man Trump says is a good man, and will probably pardon. Trump is a degenerate, surrounded by degenerates, and our fellow Conservative Americans just don't care.

eta: You bet your ass Fox would be all over this if this were flipped and it was the Clinton's campaign mgr.

- Doc

[_canpakes]

Is this some sort of poisoning the well when Trump piss tapes come out, or that Manafort's rapey history is finally reported by Fox news?

- Doc

The tech described here has been around for a little while and there were some interesting news reports on it around a year ago, but you’re probably correct as to why it is seeing renewed attention.

Related, a few days ago Rush Limbaugh was angrily railing against Facebook’s ‘trust rating’ and how it is centered around fake news and the folks who propagate it. He repeatedly warned about how this was analogous to Communist China and repeatedly warned how “they” (read: Facebook and the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy) were going to silence “your” (read: a conservative audience) views. I wonder why this would bother Rush so much given his claim that the mainstream media is supposedly the main generator of so-called fake news versus the good Rush Limbaugh and his loyal followers being the purveyors of truth. Maybe things are actually quite opposite of that claim? ; )

[_MeDotOrg]

The implications of this technology are disturbing. It seems like the capacity of the human race to fool itself is outstripping our ability to understand when we are being fooled.

[_Maksutov]

For the unitiated. Manafort, and in addition to the war crimes (Ukrainian blood money, Google it), is an abusive sex addict who taped his brain-injured wife being gangbanged by black guys.

No, that's not an exaggeration. That's literally what his own daughters said:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikTSNcVMAAp6zQ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikThzAVAAE9L4l.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DikTOjXU0AEtSpK.jpg

https://mobile.Twitter.com/HiIamMikeC/s ... 5826686976

This is the man Trump says is a good man, and will probably pardon. Trump is a degenerate, surrounded by degenerates, and our fellow Conservative Americans just don't care.

eta: You bet your ass Fox would be all over this if this were flipped and it was the Clinton's campaign mgr.

- Doc

Where's Epstein in all this? Ya gotta wonder.

[_canpakes]

This is the man Trump says is a good man, and will probably pardon.

It’s important to use this Presidential privilege to get one’s crooked friends off the hook.

Swampiest swamp ever.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

This is the man Trump says is a good man, and will probably pardon.

It’s important to use this Presidential privilege to get one’s crooked friends off the hook.

Swampiest swamp ever.

Manafort Shand also described her father as being “super tight” with the entire Trump family and “one of the world’s greatest manipulators.”

“Like he just tells you the sky is green over and over,” she said. “And eventually you are like is it? … It’s confidence. When you say something unwaveringly, people start to believe it.”

“I mean yea that got Trump where he is today,” a friend replied.

“Yup. Perfect allies,” Manafort Shand agreed. “Trump probably has more morals than my dad. Which is really just saying something about my dad. My dad is a psycho!!!”

- Doc