Posted on 03/02/2021 10:12:30 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Genealogy company MyHeritage is putting deepfake technology to a creatively unsettling use with a new feature called Deep Nostalgia. The system animates photographs of long-deceased loved ones, turning old still portraits into uncanny blinking and smiling videos.
Deepfake technology has been rapidly evolving over the past few years and generally stoking conversations over how close we are to completely losing faith in the veracity of the images we encounter. So far, the technology is still in its infancy but MyHeritage is presenting a novel use of deepfakes, bringing to life still photographs of dead relatives.
Called Deep Nostalgia, the technology comes from Israel-based company D-ID. Users can upload old photographs of deceased relatives and the system automatically enhances the image before applying a deepfake algorithm to deliver a short animated video of the subject.
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Paging Harry Potter...
“Animates photographs of long-deceased loved ones”
I did it for my Grandpa.....
“Hey kid. Go get me another beer. Are you sure he’s one of ours?”
It was just like he was there again.
Didn’t they do this with Peter Cushing in Rogue One?
Wow. Everyone should watch the short video. Truly scary. Maybe Biden is already gone. With the media 100% Democrat, and the cover of a pandemic limiting his public appearances, the American public would never know.
No thanks. That clever little device would only make the death of a loved one harder to deal with.
You would grieve the loss over and over, seems to me.
Some may still want one.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
A gal I used to work with would tell me the stories of her in-laws taking pictures of their dead loved ones in the caskets. She always dreaded going to funerals of her husbands relatives.
No those would be creepy Deepfakes.
I suppose it’s like having a tailor made GIF of someone you know. Some may be able to enjoy it without getting to emotionally caught up in the image.
So that is what Democrats are using in those Joe Biden TV appearances.
I will sing this victory song.
I did.
I got emotionally caught up.
“Grandpa, why aren’t you out on the lawn eating grass? Dad says you’re an old goat.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2DDU4g0PRo
Interesting use of it.
That’s exactly what came to my mind.
Think of it this way: We all thought that with all those cell phone cameras, there would be either lots of videos of UFO’s now, or they would be proven to be baloney. But that hasn’t happend. What HAS happened is a lot of very good “hollywood quality” fakes, and the usual shaky and blurry stuff. Just more of it.
This sort of thing is still easily detectable by software, but all you have to do is make the claim that a video is faked and enough people will believe it - even if it’s real.
And the ‘bringing loved ones back to life” thing is both cool and creepy. What the site in the OP didn’t show was them actually talking. Of course, you could add any voice. In fact, you could create one of Marilyn Monroe, with a person faking her voice, talking about her sexual escapades with the president. Or you could get one of Jesus, ripped right from one of those old paintings explaining how he made it all up.
Yeah, creepy.
Looks like the paintings and newspapers in a Harry Potter movie.
The democrats bring back my deceased parents to vote each two years.
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