deepfakes
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The REFACE App Has Turned Me Into Narcissus
If you’ve ever wanted to know what your face would look like carelessly pasted over Jason Momoa or Cardi B’s bone structure, a new app will let you do that. REFACE maps and plasters your face onto another, an innovation that surely had noble intentions but has instead served to create some truly eldritch horrors.…
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This Office Space Meets The Matrix Deepfake Deserves A Theatrical Release
The deepfake hits just keep on coming. Following an excellent reimagining of Back to the Future where Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox are replaced with Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland, another talented deepfaker has put Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving into Office Space, creating the fourth Matrix film we really deserve.
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Facebook Bans Deepfake Videos That Would Mislead The Average Person, Fails To Define ‘Average Person’
Facebook announced overnight that it will ban any deepfake videos that wouldn’t be recognised by the average person as parody or satire. There was just one problem: the tech giant didn’t clearly define any of those terms. The Book of Faces didn’t bother to say what “parody,” “satire,” or “average person,” means, which will probably bite…
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Twitter Wants The Hive Mind To Weigh In On Its Deepfake Policy
It doesn’t take a genius to know that announced today that it has drafted a policy to deal with “synthetic and manipulated” media”and it wants public input before it becomes official.