Deep Fakes
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:20 pm
Another photography contest winner has been disqualified after the photo was determined to have been manipulated in an unapproved manor. News story recently are talking about the recent sophistication of so called 'deep fakes', which appears to refer mostly to video, but still image fakes have been around for a while.
In this video you see comedian Bill Hader morph into a facsimile of Arnold Schwarzenegger -- when I first saw it I didn't know it was a fake and was stunned at how much like Arnold he looked like as he was doing the Arnold imitation. This isn't someone else's head stuck on Bill's body and to my eye it looks like they grafted part of his face and did so quite seamlessly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhUhypV27w
The thing that's scary about this fake is how subtle it is and unless you have access to the RAW footage its hard to know if image/video experts will be able to tell the difference with sufficient authority to blunt the impact of it.
There have been fakes of still images for a long time and video has always been the tougher nut to crack, but it looks like the tools to do this are more readily available and I for one think the upcoming election is going to be the first one where these fakes are used. Indeed, I suspect it will be used repeatedly.
Brian
In this video you see comedian Bill Hader morph into a facsimile of Arnold Schwarzenegger -- when I first saw it I didn't know it was a fake and was stunned at how much like Arnold he looked like as he was doing the Arnold imitation. This isn't someone else's head stuck on Bill's body and to my eye it looks like they grafted part of his face and did so quite seamlessly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhUhypV27w
The thing that's scary about this fake is how subtle it is and unless you have access to the RAW footage its hard to know if image/video experts will be able to tell the difference with sufficient authority to blunt the impact of it.
There have been fakes of still images for a long time and video has always been the tougher nut to crack, but it looks like the tools to do this are more readily available and I for one think the upcoming election is going to be the first one where these fakes are used. Indeed, I suspect it will be used repeatedly.
Brian