computer graphics
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Acer Just Revealed External Monitors With Stereoscopic 3D, and I’m Dying to Try Them
I often get excited about testing a product because I know it’s going to be a joy to use. Other times, it’s because I’ve never held the device before or there is a new feature worth checking out. Then there is a small group of gadgets that catches my interest because I genuinely don’t know…
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Deepfakes Maybe Not Quite the Political Apocalypse We Feared, MIT Researchers Find
Ever since we’ve seen deepfakes cropping up across porn, e-commerce, and literal bank robberies, there’s always been concern that this same tech could be used to interfere with future elections. Well, according to one new study, that might be tougher than we thought. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have put out a…
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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…