A new way to make fake news
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A team of researchers have found a way to create incredibly convincing fake videos of people talking.
They trained their neural network on 17 hours of footage of Obama talking, and here are the results...
Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync from Audio – 08:01
— Supasorn SuwajanakornThey can get him to say excerpts from an existing speech with seamless results. They can also feed in speech from other sources, such as the guy later on in the video imitating Obama.
This stuff is incredibly cool, but also a bit scary at the same time!
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@doctorjones said in A new way to make fake news:
They can get him to say excerpts from an existing speech with seamless results.
Are you sure they're not just playing the original video?
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@doctorjones holy shit this will revolutionize fan fic mondays
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@ben_lubar said in A new way to make fake news:
@doctorjones holy shit this will revolutionize fan fic mondays
Load it up with Samuel L Jackson and have it read slashfic?
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@e4tmyl33t said in A new way to make fake news:
@ben_lubar said in A new way to make fake news:
@doctorjones holy shit this will revolutionize fan fic mondays
Load it up with Samuel L Jackson and have it read slashfic?
Sorry, I can only imitate the voices of presidents.
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@ben_lubar said in A new way to make fake news:
@e4tmyl33t said in A new way to make fake news:
@ben_lubar said in A new way to make fake news:
@doctorjones holy shit this will revolutionize fan fic mondays
Load it up with Samuel L Jackson and have it read slashfic?
Sorry, I can only imitate the voices of presidents.
New political party: Sam Jackson For Muthafuckin President
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@e4tmyl33t said in A new way to make fake news:
@ben_lubar said in A new way to make fake news:
@e4tmyl33t said in A new way to make fake news:
@ben_lubar said in A new way to make fake news:
@doctorjones holy shit this will revolutionize fan fic mondays
Load it up with Samuel L Jackson and have it read slashfic?
Sorry, I can only imitate the voices of presidents.
New political party: Sam Jackson For Muthafuckin President
Campaign slogan: "I'm sick of these motherfucking terrorists in our motherfucking country!"
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This is what my mates had to say on the subject
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@doctorjones FROM SOFTWARE has even worse lip sync. Most characters don't move their lips at all when they talk.
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@ben_lubar They're just simulating ventriloquists