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Comment by rvz | Hacker News Reader

Let's accelerate the AI carnage please.

Now with one click!

This gets really spicy when it can be adapted to run realtime so you can map a face on a Teams call, etc. and combine with voice mapping so you can seamlessly impersonate someone for those "It's me" extortion calls to grandmas. All of those hours of Tiktoks are now an endless goldmine for scammers...

On the other hand, since you mentioned Teams, I foresee some applications in the space of faking presence on meetings on which everyone is required to have their camera turned on.

For this you can already use a prerecorded video as a camera from OBS. The challenge is what to do when asked, and faking someone else doesn't offer any improvement for that.

Yeah but it would require a lot of compute power. Even a 1 minute clip takes significant amount of time to deepfake on consumer hardware

About 30 minutes on an i9-10850K

Still far away from real time face swapping

Actually I think making this kind of AI easier to access is a way to reduce the negative effects of this kind of tools. If only ML engineers can make deepfakes, people are actually going to believe deepkfakes.

If every 12yo asshole kid flood the internet with deepfakes, then people will actually realize that anybody can fake a video, and stop believing everything they see, which will greatly reduce the potential for misinformation/harassment/the spread of false rumors about people

I would be inclined to think this as well. The problem is, large numbers of people will still accept the fakes when it suits their beliefs, and they will claim fake on real footage that doesn't mesh with their beliefs.

This will definitely accelerate the decline of humanity, but we were headed downhill already anyway.

One of those "things have to get worse before they can get better"?

Stop believe anything they see you must mean.

Anyway all academic, prepare for interesting times.

You know the damage script kiddies do with one click solutions?

this isn't a "hacking" tool though

How is it not? This makes something like social engineering potentially far easier. Wouldn’t that be considered a tool in the hacking toolbox?

if we follow that logic photoshop and pdf editors are hacking tools

You could use those things to assist an attack. It's been done many times. But they just don't scale. These types of tools scale. Also I'd love to see someone realtime fake their identity with Photoshop or a pdf editing tool. Seriously send me links I'd love to see it

This is 100% a hacking and extortion/blackmail/propaganda tool. Aside from entertainment I'd love to hear of a different use case...

Aside from entertainment, what's the use of Adobe Premiere? Or Davinci Resolve? Seems odd to exempt the one use case that this is most valuable for. Look at how many Hollywood movies had their CGI improved by fans using this kind of tech and a laptop.

Now imagine what happens when indie film directors have access to the same tech, which simply requires learning these tools.

I'm not dismissing the very real and very legitimate concern about how deepfakes can be (and are being) used for blackmail, extortion, and propaganda. But I wouldn't discount the legitimate uses.

Imagine thinking false rumors are going to be the biggest problem regarding AI misuse lol

Can't have the plebs have access to our tools! /s

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