AI can generate portaits indistinguishable from real human faces. what does this mean?

https://petapixel.com/2018/12/17/these-portraits-were-made-by-ai-none-of-these-people-exist/?fbclid=IwAR3TwzHwosIGIJgEZSPYkvI4BIS1_1RbyX89lEpqv9ighJxlVh6E_bRSwWs

this brief article, released two days ago, states that AI can create images of faces that are indistinguishable from real human faces, even upon close inspection. what does this imply? what's next? how much longer until AI can generate fake images using REAL human faces? as this technology becomes more advanced, will it be used to frame innocent people?

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cgheezey wrote:

how much longer until AI can generate fake images using REAL human faces? as this technology becomes more advanced, will it be used to frame innocent people?

Have you heard of deep fakes? They're not perfect by far but they will be 5 to 10 years from now. Amateurs with fairly weak hardware have made some rather convincing porn out of say Emma Watson's face. Oh and there's already technology to synthesize fake speech with other people's voices. Look at this shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0 (70 seconds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l4XLZ59iw (7 minutes)

it means Friend Computer will be able to corporate-smile at you when it takes over.

Christ, the technophobia in this country baffles me. As if we haven't been on the hunt for photorealistic graphics, including human faces, in our vidja gaems for years. This is a nonissue. You'll be fine.

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1453R wrote:

it means Friend Computer will be able to corporate-smile at you when it takes over.

Christ, the technophobia in this country baffles me. As if we haven't been on the hunt for photorealistic graphics, including human faces, in our vidja gaems for years. This is a nonissue. You'll be fine.

I wouldn't call being unable to know what's true or false a non issue. It's Putin's wet dream.

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1453R wrote:

it means Friend Computer will be able to corporate-smile at you when it takes over.

Christ, the technophobia in this country baffles me. As if we haven't been on the hunt for photorealistic graphics, including human faces, in our vidja gaems for years. This is a nonissue. You'll be fine.

Oh? Soon we will have androids that look at real humans. And they gonna take over all your jobs!

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Xavderion wrote:

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1453R wrote:

it means Friend Computer will be able to corporate-smile at you when it takes over.

Christ, the technophobia in this country baffles me. As if we haven't been on the hunt for photorealistic graphics, including human faces, in our vidja gaems for years. This is a nonissue. You'll be fine.

I wouldn't call being unable to know what's true or false a non issue. It's Putin's wet dream.

what could go wrong? Wars being started over fake news?

the uk and the usa have been managing that just fine for a long time without a computer thats good at drawing. Id be more worried about what countries in the west have been for decades than what russia might do if they could forge some celebrity porn. We already dont know whats true or false, we killed over a million ppl in the middle east over WMDs that didnt exist and have still managed to convince ourselves its russia whos the real problem when it comes to world peace.


The real deal isnt a da vinci level autonomous etchasketch, its creating an environment where people dont WANT to know the truth, where you can put the truth in front of their face and they will still believe the lie.

Were already there.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

what could go wrong? Wars being started over fake news?

the uk and the usa have been managing that just fine for a long time without a computer thats good at drawing. Id be more worried about what countries in the west have been for decades than what russia might do if they could forge some celebrity porn. We already dont know whats true or false, we killed over a million ppl in the middle east over WMDs that didnt exist and have still managed to convince ourselves its russia whos the real problem when it comes to world peace.


The real deal isnt a da vinci level autonomous etchasketch, its creating an environment where people dont WANT to know the truth, where you can put the truth in front of their face and they will still believe the lie.

Were already there.

You do have a point, but it's not the same issue. The WMD example is one where the public wasn't really able to do anything. Then there are other examples where one can only guess (Kennedy being killed by the CIA, Bilderberger participants fucking each other in the ass Eyes Wide Shut style etc.). But here we're talking about 100% real looking images and videos. At least with videos, most people can agree on whether what they're seeing is real or not. Well not anymore. It's some next level shit when you can't trust your eyes with nothing anymore.

It is alarming for forgery of videos and alibi creation for criminal purposes.

People it might be great at but the cats?

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laughing so hard at these.

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What gets me is this sudden explosive worry over technology being able to do something we've been pushing really hard for a couple of decades now for technology to do. Accurate face modeling and simulation has been a dream of video media makers for Heap Long Time now; we've been chasing this tech since I was, like...ten.

And only now are people realizing that it means we'll have to do better with video forensics and actually start thinking about what the Internet tells us is true?

C'mon, folks. C'mon. If you "can't even trust your eyes anymore(!!)", then I guess you're going to have to trust your brains instead, and think about the things you're being told. Maybe even - brace yourselves, this is gonna be heavy - do some fact checking or cross research before opening your yapholes on the latest scandal piece from Politically Driven "News" Network X.

It's an absolutely terrifying thought, I know, but that's just the kind of modern world we live in now.