Deep Fakes, so real you can't tell the difference from the real is now going high res, thanks to research course Disney Research Studios.
It may sound contradictory, but deepfakes are becoming more real.
Deepfakes, which refer to the swapping of video or still images of an individual with the likeness of another person, have become wildly popular on the Internet over the past three years. They hold great potential for entertainment and humor, but they also carry foreboding capacity for scandal, fraud and even geopolitical upheaval.
Disney Research Studios announced this week that it has developed a process that automates deepfake production with a fidelity greater than previously achieved.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first method capable of rendering photo-realistic and temporally coherent results at megapixel resolution," Disney stated on its website Monday.
Endgame ...
By the end of last year, 96 percent of online deepfake videos were porn, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Deeptrace. In almost all instances, the images were used without the subjects' permission.
So popular was this new genre of fake porn that a $50 Windows app using artificial intelligence to scan pictures of women and "undress" them was uploaded and withdrawn within a single day last summer following an immediate backlash.
Appearance is reality, is it not?
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