Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’

Update: see below

“Top artificial-intelligence researchers across the country are racing to defuse an extraordinary political weapon: computer-generated fake videos that could undermine candidates and mislead voters during the 2020 presidential campaign. And they have a message: We’re not ready.”

The WaPo is concerned about how this affects politics, but the view from the celebrity nudity perspective is just as intimidating. It has gotten to the point where we simply can’t differentiate what has been created from what had been in the camera. Sure, sometimes the evidence is clear: there was never the slightest question that Lena Headey’s “shame” scene was faked because we know what Lena looks like naked, and that was certainly not it. At other times the evidence is simply not there: the debate over Tessa Thompson’s nude scene in Westworld rages on. To add to the confusion, the atmosphere of distrust is so thick that it has become common for people to insist that real scenes must have been faked, like Leslie Mann’s brief nudity in This is 40.

Update from the comments:

The first time I saw this one I kinda freaked. Thought it was some kind of European cut.

And here’s one of Bill Hader doing a really good impression – one where he changes his face to match the voice.

3 thoughts on “Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’

  1. To be fair on the Leslie Mann issue, the fact that she did CGI nudity in The Change Up has been a huge source of confusion for those who don’t know the whole story.

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