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    'Deep fake' videos that can make anyone say anything worry U.S. intelligence agencies

    NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - A video of a seemingly real news anchor, reading a patently false script saying things like the "subways always run on time" and "New York City pizza is definitely not as good as Chicago" gives a whole new meaning to the term fake news.

    But that fake news anchor is a real example of a fascinating new technology with frightening potential uses.

    I was stunned watching the Frankenstein mix of Steve Lacy's voice coming out of what looks like my mouth.

    The video is what is known as a deep fake: a computer-generated clip using an algorithm that learned my face so well that is can recreate it with remarkable accuracy.

    My generated face can be swapped onto someone else's head (like that original video with Steve) or it can be used to make me look like I'm saying things I've never said.

    For this piece, I worked with Lyu and his team at the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany.

    For many people, seeing is believing.

    "I would say it's not 100% true anymore," Lyu said.

    Their deep fake research is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which acts as the research and development wing of the U.S. Defense Department. They're working to develop a set of tools the government and public can use to detect and combat the rise of deep fakes.

    "What we're doing here is providing a kind of detection method to authenticate these videos," Lyu said.

    What's more, deep fakes technically aren't that hard to make. All it takes is a few seconds of video of someone, a powerful computer, and some code, which Lyu and his team don't release publicly.

    "The real danger, I believe, is the fact that the line between what is real and what is fake is blurred...
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    There was a controversy on Reddit awhile back with people using this technology to put images of famous people in pornography or something to that effect (I'm not sure exactly what was going on; I wasn't paying attention). The scary thing is that's the least of the concerns of what could be done with it. I could see somebody releasing a video right before an election of a candidate supposedly saying "I hate black people".
    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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    • #3
      There are sites like this one where you can easily make your own:

      https://deepfakesweb.com/

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      • #4
        The worst part about this is that video evidence of crimes is going to become worthless
        "Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." - That Guy Everyone Quotes

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        • #5
          Originally posted by hamster View Post
          The worst part about this is that video evidence of crimes is going to become worthless
          well chain of custody will become really important anyway.

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          • #6
            Somebody made one of Mark Zuckerberg to test if Facebook really would keep their word about leaving such videos up:

            https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y...rce=reddit.com

            Just to be honest, that video seems really choppy to me. I'm not very familiar with Zuckerberg so I don't know if he really does speak like Christopher Walken in real life.
            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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            • #7
              Tim Pool used a program anyone can access to clone Joe Rogan's voice, and it sounds indistinguishable. Most of the deep fake visuals I've seen are pretty distinguishable (at least the programs available to the general public), but I imagine in a few years and few tweaks here and there they won't be.



              This is the future of our reality apparently, where you can't trust anything you see or hear online.
              Last edited by seanD; 02-13-2023, 07:22 PM.

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              • #8
                If anything appears claiming I don't like bacon you know it's a lie.

                I'm always still in trouble again

                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                • #9
                  Rogue06, I generated your voice and stole all of your bacon!
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                    Rogue06, I generated your voice and stole all of your bacon!
                    You generated a copy of one of the squirrels talking

                    That allows access to any fake bacon that slips in during a bacon raid.

                    Enjoy.

                    I'm always still in trouble again

                    "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                    "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                    "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                    • #11
                      You could star in your own favorite movie soon. I could be Neo in the Matrix. Maybe some drama, some great movie.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                        You generated a copy of one of the squirrels talking

                        That allows access to any fake bacon that slips in during a bacon raid.

                        Enjoy.
                        Dang! I knew I didn't get the voice high enough.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Machinist View Post
                          You could star in your own favorite movie soon. I could be Neo in the Matrix. Maybe some drama, some great movie.
                          There are already some apps that let you faceswap your face onto characters in movie video clips.

                          https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reface...s/id1488782587

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post

                            Dang! I knew I didn't get the voice high enough.
                            You have to grab and squeeze... Never mind.

                            Btw, I'm a bass tenor, and closer to the former than the latter.

                            I'm always still in trouble again

                            "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                              You have to grab and squeeze... Never mind.

                              Btw, I'm a bass tenor, and closer to the former than the latter.
                              You're a fish?

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