CT News: Pornography Meets Advanced AI Face Swapping Technology!
The world seems to get stranger day by day. Technology is transforming the impossible into the possible at a rate that is almost unfathomable. Have you ever climbed Everest or walked on the Moon? The honest answer is proabably 'no' although there may be a handful of people that could answer 'yes' but could I make it look like you did using today's most advanced machine learning techniques. The answer is a resounding 'yes!'
This technology will blur reality as doctored images and videos destroy the seeing is believing premise we have previously relied upon. No, seeing is not believing... We must be more critical than ever before as technology has become exponentially better at tricking our senses. And wouldn't you know, the technology is being feverishly applied to pornography!
Advanced machine learning technology is being used to create fake pornography featuring real actors and pop stars, pasting their faces over existing performers in explicit movies.
The resulting clips, made without consent from the women whose faces are used, are often indistinguishable from a real film, with only subtly uncanny differences suggesting something is amiss.
What if you were browsing the internet and came across a clip of yourself performing in an adult video? Would you feel violated? Well if you didn't explicitly agree to making it and go through the process of making it then most likely you would!
A community on the social news site Reddit has spent months creating and sharing the images, which were initially made by a solo hobbyist who went by the name “deepfake”. When the technology site Motherboard first reported on the user in December last year, they had already made images featuring women including Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and Game of Thrones actor Maisie Williams.
This is playing with fire in my opinion but highlights a bigger problem... We can no longer trust our eyes! Machine learning has taken away one of our most reliable senses!
Seeing is no longer believing!
In the months since, videos featuring other celebrities including Star Wars lead Daisy Ridley, Game of Thrones’s Sophie Turner, and Harry Potter star Emma Watson have been posted on the site, which has become the main location for sharing the clips.
The speed at which AI is advancing is terrifying. There is no telling exactly how our world will be transformed by its application in every field imaginable but there is one certainty, change is going to happen, its happening now and the pace of change although possibly undetectable is speeding up!
While simple face swaps can be done in real time using apps such as Snapchat, the quality of the work posted by deepfake required much more processing time, and a wealth of original material for the AI system to learn from. But the computer science behind it is widely known, and a number of researchers have already demonstrated similar face swaps carried out using public figures from news footage.
The creation of face-swapped pornography rapidly scaled up in late December, when another Reddit user (going by the name “deepfaceapp”) released a desktop app designed to let consumers create their own clips. While not easy to use – the app takes eight to 12 hours of processing time to make one short clip – the release of the app galvanised the creation of many more images.
If AI exists that is capable of face-swapping and creating video which is fake but also undetectable by the human eye, wouldn't the opposite be possible? Will we see more advanced AI working to detect falsification and warn us that the video or audio we are taking in has been changed by machine learning techniques!
“I think the current version of the app is a good start, but I hope to streamline it even more in the coming days and weeks,” deepfakeapp told Motherboard. “Eventually, I want to improve it to the point where prospective users can simply select a video on their computer, download a neural network correlated to a certain face from a publicly available library, and swap the video with a different face with the press of one button.”
The ease of making extremely plausible fake videos using neural network-based technology has created a lot of controversy among many observers, they justifiably fear that it there will be a coming era when even the basic reality of recorded film, image or sound can’t be trusted.
“We already see it doesn’t even take doctored audio or video to make people believe something that isn’t true,” Mandy Jenkins, from social news company Storyful, told the Guardian last year. “This has the potential to make it worse.”
What do you guys think about this new development? Would you be shocked to find a video on the internet in which you or a family member had been transformed into an adult video performer? Things are going too far in my opinion but I'd love to hear yours!
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AI used to face-swap Hollywood stars into pornography films - The Guardian
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