special effects
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Deepfaking Genitalia Into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan
Another intriguing and lucrative use case exploring the potential of deepfake technology: dicks, unblurred. On Monday, police in Japan arrested a man who admitted to sharing porn that was deepfaked to clarify pixellated genitalia. According to The Mainichi, he sold over 2,500 video files for 11 million yen (roughly AU$128,700). The paper adds that this appears…
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Warner Bros. Lets Anyone Be in Its Reminiscence Trailer With a Cool New Deepfake Generator
In general, I am wary of deepfakes, primarily because they can be used for evil and be kind of creepy. There are exceptions, such as the YouTuber that made a way better deepfake version of a young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian than Lucasfilm’s CG division did. Recently, Warner Bros. debuted an impressive deepfake marketing…
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This Mum Allegedly Created Deepfakes to Bully Her Daughter’s Rivals Off the Cheerleading Squad
Authorities say a Pennsylvania woman anonymously sent her daughter’s cheerleading coaches deepfake photos and videos of rival teammates naked, drinking, or smoking to get them kicked off the squad, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. She also reportedly sent this manipulated content to the teammates themselves and harassed them with texts urging them to commit suicide,…
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Watch This Sweet Short Film About An Unemployed Special Effect
Practical effects used to be the only way of doing things. If you wanted a cool image on screen, you had to build it and figure out how to film it. Now, computers make that work, well, not easier, but different. If you were an old special effect, it would be a rough adjustment.