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Also Microsoft…
Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy
I know the genie’s out of the bottle, but goddamn.
Microsoft: I know this will only be used for evil, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna pass up on the hype-boost to my market share.
Every other big corp: same!
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
Can we maybe stop making these? XD
This coming from the guy who turned himself into a fly for fun
It’s not his fault earth girls are easy.
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Like what even is a legitimate use case for these? It just seems tailor made for either misinformation or pointless memes, neither of which seem like a good sales pitch
I could see a few uses, but the biggest would probably be advertising. Tailored ads that look like they’re coming from a real person.
Imagine Jake from State Farm addressing you personally about your insurance in an ad.
Not that I endorse advertising, I’d like to see it all banned.
I think it could be useful to humanise some things though and talking to a “person” AI in a video call might be more comfortable for some people wanting to do tasks such as say navigate my mobile phone carriers shitty AI help system.
Really any sort of AI assistant device could benefit from a human imprint.
Imagine your dead relative selling you extended warranty for your vehicle.
Deepfakes are being used to personalize political messages in India, here’s a fun article on it which also points out an instance all the way back from 2020: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/20/deepfake-democracy-behind-the-ai-trickery-shaping-indias-2024-elections
It also mentions using deepfakes to target constituencies speaking different languages, to defame opposing parties, and even creating deepfakes to cast doubt on legitimate videos:
Ahead of the state election in November, the caller requested that Jadoun alter a problematic but authentic video of their candidate – whose party he did not disclose – to make a realistic deepfake. The aim: to claim that the original was a deepfake, and the deepfake the original.
In Australia they handed out fliers designed to look like an official government department, and targeted Chinese speaking communities who might not notice the difference.
Dodgy politicians will use anything, the solution is to go after them for doing it rather than focusing on the method because they’ll just find another method if they don’t get stopped.
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If they use the speech tech on top of it, you wouldn’t even know if you were talking to the person you think you are.
I think you’re falling for the overblown fearmongering headline, and pointless memes is a great reason to make things.
Avatars for ugly people who are good at games and want to get into streaming
Vasa? Like, the Swedish ship that sank 10 minutes after it was launched? Who named that project?
They developed an ai to name all future ai. Ironically it is unnamed.
No, like the crispbread.
A long time ago, someone from a not free country wrote a white paper on why we should care about privacy, because written words can be edited to level false accusations (charges) with false evidence. This chills me to the bone.
This is turning into some Mistborn shit. “Don’t trust writing not written on metal”
“You shot that man, citizen. Here is video evidence. Put your hands against the wall.” - and more coming to you soon!
These vids are just off enough that I think doing a bunch of mushrooms and watching them would be a deeply haunting experience
So essentially the music video for Drugs by Ratatat.
The first video her bottom teeth shift around.
This is why I don’t post my picture online and I never talk to anyone ever, while hiding my head inside a nylon stocking (unrelated).
Freddie, this is your mom. Look all I want for my birthday is for you to please start using teams new. It’s so much better than teams classic. I alread… Microsoft already installed it for you. Okay honey? And could you also start using a microsoft.com account so you can get financially hooked like all the Gmail users? It’s pretty smart. Don’t you want to be smart like Jonny? Tata!
Since it’s trained on celebrities, can it do ugly people or would it try to make them prettier in animation?
The teeth change sizes, which is kinda weird, but probably fixable.
It’s not too hard to notice for an up close face shot, but if it was farther away it might be hard - the intonation and facial expressions are spot on. They should use this to re-do all the digital faces in Star Wars.
One photo? That’s incredible.
The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.
Feed it Microsoft Merlin. What will happen?
Microsoft’s research teams always makes some pretty crazy stuff. The problem with Microsoft is that they absolutely suck at translating their lab work into consumer products. Their labs publications are an amazing archive of shit that MS couldn’t get out the door properly or on time. Example - multitouch gesture UIs.
As interesting as this is, I’ll bet MS just ends up using some tech that Open AI launches before MS’s bureaucratic product team can get their shit together.
Paranoia vibes starting in 3, 2, 1…
The pores don’t stretch, but the teeth and irises sure do!
I’m sure they will fix that before you know it.
