Posted on 04/10/2016 7:53:00 AM PDT by Nachum
In recent years, many have voiced increasing concerns with their ability to place trust in official data, and have faith in conventional narratives.
And for good reason: just yesterday a University of Chicago finance professor, while being interviewed at the Ambrosetti Forum, said that it is all about preserving confidence and trust in a "rigged game": "if people are told enough by smart people on television that the economy has been fixed, and the market is a reflection of the fundamentals, then they’ll blindly support anything the Fed does."
But while the saying "don't believe everything [or anything] you read" and "trust but verify" may be more appropriate now than ever, the following video is an absolute stunner in its revelation of just how deep "real-time" media deception can truly go.
In a recently published paper by the Stanford lab of Matthias Niessner titled "Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos", the authors show how disturbingly easy it is to take a surrogate actor and, in real time using everyday available tools, reenact their face and create the illusion that someone else, notably someone famous or important, is speaking. Even more disturbing: one doesn't need sophisticated equipment to create a "talking" clone - a commodity webcam and some software is all one needs to create the greatest of sensory manipulations.
From the paper abstract:
We present a novel approach for real-time facial reenactment of a monocular target video sequence (e.g., Youtube video). The source sequence is also a monocular video stream, captured live with a commodity webcam. Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion. To this end, we first address the under-constrained problem of facial identity recovery from
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I never watch the news anymore..nothing no but propaganda. TV is becoming less of a medium so they are going to lose this battle IMO. people know if they are out of work though and can’t get a job..can’t spin that
A sure test for lack of learning is to determine if the prime news source for the individual is television news.
Thats so cool it scared the hell outta me. I am SO glad I disconnected cable 5 years ago!!
The face swapping doo-dads on snapchat are just creepy.
No kidding! I don’t have it, but my girls do. Cricket, we’ve come up with some really creepy combos!
WASS
We Are Soooooo Screwed!
Stunning Headline Serves As Clickbait — What You Will Read Will SHOCK YOU
How long has the executive branch been using this to put on Barry Soetoro’s face every day?
What I saw was pretty shocking too..
Bkmrk.
It was very scary when they spun it enough in 2012 (after four years of Obama’s bungling and failures); there has been no recovery in the northeast (a slow evacuation of Americans instead), yet Dems still easily win here.
A couple of years ago they showed a fireworks display over some sporting event, then had to admit that it was imposed on the screen when people attending the event were adamant that it never happened.
“Hunger Games” stuff from our overlords...
With this technology, someone could blow, say, Kim Jong-un’s head off and he could still be giving live speeches 100 years from now.
Sort of like the Bad Lip Sync videos.
You CAN put words in their mouths.
Its that Star Trek episode where they had the dead guy propped up in front of the camera.
True that. Add NPR.
It does not look real, and has the effect of putting real faces into the uncanny valley. So you can use this technology to, for example, make people think that a real person is a lifelike robot.
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